Fundamentals of speech acoustics - ALINV602B
Title: Základy akustiky řeči
Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AFO200003
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Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Ing. Tomáš Bořil, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
In the theoretical part, students learn about the basic principles of acoustics which are important for phonetics, about the
fundamentals of psychoacoustics, and about the source-filter theory of speech production. In the seminars, the covered
phenomena will be practiced in the form of exercises. Students will acquire essential operations with software tools for the
analysis of speech signals (e.g., generating sounds, filtering, segmenting the speech signal.
Last update: Šturm Pavel, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.03.2020)
Course completion requirements - Czech

70% docházka, aktivní účast, vypracování seminární práce, závěrečný test

Last update: Bořil Tomáš, Ing., Ph.D. (01.10.2021)
Literature - Czech

Ladefoged, P. (2015). A Course in Phonetics.
Fry, D. B. (1979). The Physics of Speech.
Machač, P. & Skarnitzl, R. (2009). Fonetická segmentace hlásek. Praha: Epocha.
Palková, Z. (1994). Fonetika a fonologie češtiny. Praha: Karolinum. (vybrané části)
Zwicker, H. F. E. (2007). Psychoacoustics facts and models.
Fant, G. (1970). Acoustic theory of speech production. The Hague: Mouton.
Ladefoged, P. (1996). Elements of acoustic phonetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Johnson, K. (2003). Acoustic and auditory phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Kent, R. D. - Read, C. (1992). The acoustic analysis of speech. San Diego: Whurr Publishers.
Syrový, V. (2003). Hudební akustika. Praha: Akademie múzických umění. (vybrané části)

Last update: Bořil Tomáš, Ing., Ph.D. (15.01.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Physical description of sound: basic notions; propagation of sound; the principle of Fourier transform, spectrum and spectrogram; waveform types; resonance and filters.
2. Psychoacoustic description of sound: frequency vs. pitch; intensity vs. loudness; quality of sound.
3. Gunnar Fant's source-filter theory of speech production.

Last update: Šturm Pavel, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.03.2020)