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Comment by Cordiali

If you, or anyone else reading, is interested in playing around with this stuff, there's an open source program called Praat[0]. I assume it still is the go-to in linguistics for making spectrograms, it was back when I was studying it, at least.

There's probably nicer programs that can do the same thing, aimed at people like musicians, but they won't have the phonetics-specific guides and help online.

There's also a large archive of speech recordings from a wide range of languages hosted by UCLA[1], which you can download and play around with. There might be newer archives now, but I remember this one, because Peter Ladefoged wrote the proverbial book on introductory phonetics.

Linguistics generally aligns quite pro-copyleft, so there will be a lot of freely available stuff online.

[0]: https://praat.org/ [1]: https://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/

parent Cordiali 13 days ago

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