PhonERA (Phonetic Easy Recording Assistant) is a program that emulates a few basic functions of a multimedia language laboratory. You can:
listen to sound files (phonetic audio texts and exercises...) with traditional functions to pause, rewind, wind forward, roll back;
record Your own voice and listen to this recording afterwards;
process the so-called 'marked recording' - this is when Your voice is recorded into the pauses left specially by the speaker; it is especially useful as You can compare Your pronunciation with that of the native speaker phrase by phrase.
The publication is very old, but pretty good. Anyone who has once come into contact with this tutorial, fall in love with him forever! Listening and reading short dialogues not only help you work out the English intonation and pronunciation of individual sounds, but also take real pleasure. Humorous dialogues with a bright tone to remember easily. Many phrases from these conversations are immediately remembered: How can you measure pleasure? / Criticism! Nothing but criticism! / You have to heat it before you eat it / Zoos are nice! / You're getting thinner every minute and more. etc.
Phonetics is concerned with describing speech. There are many different reasons for wanting to do this, which means that there are many kinds of phoneticians. Some are interested in the different sounds that occur in languages. Some are more concerned with pathological speech. Others are trying to help people speak a particular form of English. Still others are looking for ways to make computers talk more intelligibly or to get omputers to recognize speech. For all these purposes, phoneticians need to find out what people are doing when they are talking and how the sounds of speech can be described.
English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course (3rd. Ed)
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English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course (3rd. Ed)
Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation.
3rd Edition
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This revised and expanded edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. Like its predecessor, this edition of Elements of Acoustic Phonetics will serve as an invaluable textbook and reference for students and practitioners of linguistics and speech science, and for anyone who wants to understand the physics of speech.
