LgV32 Acoustics of the human voice

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MgA. Mgr. Ondřej Jirásek, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Květoňová
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
Course objectives
A student gets acquainted with practical phonetic analysis of speech using modern computer tools.
Learning outcomes
Finishing the course, the student will be able to perform independent computer analysis of the human voice acoustically.
Syllabus
  • Physiology of the human voice (relationship with phonetics): 1. Vocal system: function of the vocal cords, resonant cavities (chest, pharynx, larynx, oral and nasal cavities, skull) 2. Articulation: lips, gums, teeth, upper hard and soft palate, jaw, tongue (tip, scapula, root) 3. Vowels: place of formation, shape of the oral cavity (Hellwag's vocalic triangle) 4. voiced and voiceless consonants: vocal cord involvement, place of formation, progression in time The sound form of the human voice (relationship with phonology): 5. Tone and noise components 6. Tone signal generated by the vocal cords 7. The motor components generated in the articulatory system 8. Formant regions corresponding to resonant cavities 9. Soft tissue absorption 10. Directionality of the human voice Measurement and analysis of speech (programs available to me - free version): 11. Loudness and lengths (time and dynamic axis, units of seconds, dB) 12. Spectrum (pitch/frequency axis, dynamic axis, units of Hz, dB), what we read from the spectrograph and spectrogram 13. Intonation (time axis and pitch axis) 14. Directionality measurements (directionality diagram, how directionally each vowel emanates) 15. Recognition and analysis of voice disorders, speech phenomena and special consonants 16. Neural networks for browsing audio on the internet - labeling linguistic phenomena (length, pitch, strength and color) and search methods, training and search branches 17. Home studio: recording, editing and editing the human voice
Teaching methods
laboratory and home exercises
Assessment methods
Final project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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