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Short-term Loan Recording Equipment

Location: Lab Consulting Office
Service: Field Recording and Digitizing.
Equipment Name Signout Status
Portable Solid State Recorder A (M-Audio Microtrack 24/96) Available
Portable Solid State Recorder B (M-Audio Microtrack 24/96) Available
Portable Solid State Recorder C (M-Audio Microtrack 24/96) Available
Portable Minidisc Recorder A (Sony MZB10) Available
Portable Minidisc Recorder B (Sony MZB10) Available
Lapel Microphone (Optimus) Available
Lapel Microphone (Vivanco) Available
Lapel Microphone VHF wireless (Audi-Technica Pro 88W) Available
General Pupose Microphone (Sony ECM-MS908C) Available
Large Diaphram Condenser Microphone (M-Audio Luna) Available
USB Recording Interface/Mic Pre-Amp (M-Audio Mobile Pre) Available
Headphones (Sony MDR) Available
Digital Video HandyCam (Sony DCR-TRV38) Available
4MP Digital Camera (HP R607) Available
Fujitsu Windows XP Lite Laptop Available

Audio Digitizing Station

Location: Phonetics Laboratory
Service: Digitizing and editing Reel-to-Reel, cassette, DAT, VHS, and MiniDV tapes. Transfer and edit minidisc data.
PC Windows XP + DVD Burner (see also Available Software)
Minidisc Recorder (Sony MDS-E10)
Double Cassette Deck (Pioneer CT-W703RS)
Digital Audio Tape deck (Sony DTC-750)
Reel-to-Reel tape recorders (Revox A700, Uher 4000)
Mixer (Eurorack UB 1002)
Microphones available
Headphones (Sony MDR)
Mic Preamp and A/D converter (M-Audio Firewire 410)

Video Station

Location: Research Assistants Room.
Service: Digitizing and editing VHS/DV tapes. Digital Imaging.
PC Windows XP (see also Available Software)
Digital Video cassette recorder (Sony GV-D1000 NTSC)
VHS (JVC HR S900U)
External DVD+/-RW (Sony DRX-510 UL)
Headset (AKG K240DF)

Recording Stations (2)

Location: Phonetics Laboratory
Service: Recording and speech analysis.

PC Windows XP (see also Available Software)
CSL System (Kay 4500)
Electroglottograph (Kay 6103)
Laryngograph
Five-channel Headphone Amplifier (Samson)
1 Mixer (Eurorack MX 602A)
1 Microphone (Shure SM 58)
1 Microphone (AKG C 1000 S)
1 Microphone (M-Audio Luna)
2 Headphones (Sony MDR)
1 Mic Preamp and A/D converter (M-Audio Firewire 410)

Other Hardware

Location: Teaching Assistants Room.
Service: Instructor's daily work; Presentations.
1 TV (Sony Trinitron KV-27FS13)
1 DVD Recorder (Sony RDR-VX500)
1 Projector (InFocus)
1 Handheld Windows XP PC(Fujitsu LifeBook Pseries)
1 Pair Self-Powered Speakers (Roland)

Student Stations

Location: Phonetics Laboratory
Service: Students' daily work.
3 PC Windows XP (see also Available Software)
3 eMac Mac OS X (see also Available Software)

Available Software


Analysis:

  • The Computerized Speech Lab (CSL) * - for speech and signal processing and analysis.
  • Multi-Speech * - a multimedia, Windows version of the CSL speech and signal processing processing and analysis package.
  • Video Phonetics Database * - "provides the ability to display a video window in conjunction with acoustic data; the data are linked in time for synchronous real-time display or in-depth analysis via cursor movement along the waveform."
  • Real-Time Spectrogram * - "provides spectrographic analysis in real time during signal acquisition."
  • Real-Time Pitch * - "provides true real-time pitch and energy displays in addition to robust numerical analysis. It is ideal for speech/voice clinics and language training applications."
  • Sona-Match * - "a real-time program for providing biofeedback of speech spectrum, vowel space, and formant values."
  • Palatometer Database * - "The database is used as a teaching tool to show the correlation between acoustics and tongue contact with the upper teeth and palate."
  • Real-Time EGG * - a real-time program using electroglottographic techniques to show laryngeal waveform contours. This program may be used to assess voice quality.
  • IPA Lab - an online application that teaches the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and develops both ear training and transcription skills.
  • The University of Victoria Phonetic Database (PDB) - a compilation of 57 world languages including sound files of each language's phonetic inventory as well as extensive supporting documentation.

General:

  • Microsoft Office - all recent versions for both Mac and Windows.
  • SPSS - used for statistical analysis of sampled data (available for PCs).
  • Adobe Acrobat - used for creating PDFs.
  • Audacity - used for audio recording and editing.
  • <oXygen/> - used for document development using structured mark-up languages such as XML , XSD, Relax NG, XSL, DTD (available for PCs).
  • Assorted software titles - utilities for working with audio, video and HTML/XML are available for both Mac and PC.
  • Adobe Premiere - real-time video and audio editing (available only for the video station).
  • Adobe Photoshop - professional image-editing (available only on video station).
  • OmniPage Pro - OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software (available only for the video station).

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Many of the analysis programs have been developed by Speech Technology Research Ltd (STR) in conjunction with KayPENTAX.

Be sure to visit our page describing Phonetics Research.