Setting up Akustyk

Getting started - a walkthrough tutorial on how to install, set up, and start doing speech analysis with Akustyk

Part 1 - Setting up session preferences

Part 2 - Setting up speaker preferences and individual speakers

Part 3 - Using the Info window function

Part 4 - Session Preferences in practice

Part 5 - Prepare files for analysis

Part 6 - How to easily switch sessions

Part 7 - Using the file batch converter

Speech synthesis (LPC analysis/resynthesis + PSOLA)

Part 1 - Creating local synthesis

Part 2 - Creating global synthesis

Part 3 - Creating a speech continuum

Various utilities

Part 1 - Create speech-shaped noise

Part 2 - Add signals with various RMS ratios

Part 3 - Using the file batch converter

Part 4 - Using the "Undo" function to fix mistakes in speech analysis

Part 5 - Normalize formants

Part 6 - Syncrhonizing external audio with video with Adobe Premiere CS4

Part 7 - Setting up Audacity for speech recording

Part 8 - Recording audio with Praat

Part 9 - Qucik Transcribe: How to transcribe spectrograms and waveforms with Akustyk

Part 10 - Reading spectrograms in Praat - a brief tutorial

Vowel Analysis

Part 1 - Formant analysis with "Get formants..."

Part 2 - Segmentation for batch mode

Part 3 - Batch mode analysis

Part 4 - Formant analysis in detail

Part 5 - Using the "Undo" function to fix mistakes in speech analysis

Part 6 - Normalize formants

Part 7 - Analysis of vowel nasalization with Akustyk

Part 8 - Guided tour through the output of formant analysis (the Info window)

Part 9 - Making and refining a selection in interval analysis

Part 10 - Using Quick LPC to test LPC analysis settings

Part 11 - Prepare a data file outside of Akustyk

Plotting tutorials

Part 1 - Creating simple plots

Part 2 - Change terminal F1 and F2 values in a standard plot

Part 3 - Mix normalized and non-nomralized formants in a vowel plot

Part 4 - Using "equal to" queries in vowel plots

Part 5 - Using "not equal to" queries in vowel plots

Part 6 - Creating scatter plots

Part 7 - Creating and mixing individual vowel plots

Part 8 - Working with Akustyk and Praat EPS images

Part 9 - Using EPS images in MS Word and print

Part 10 - Creating vowel plots manually with the Manual Plot function

Part 11 - Creating customized LPC graphs with an analysis window

Part 12 - Trascribe audio files and display synchronized transcripts

Part 13 - More on EPS images

Part 14 - Using the IPA plotter

Part 15 - Using Adobe Illustrator CS4 to edit EPS images created with Akustyk and Praat

Part 16 - Discrimminant analysis with Bark-transformed formant values

Part 17 - Making Principle Analysis Components (PCA) plots

Working with Akustyk's data files and Microsoft Access

Part 1 - Working with Akustyk's data files (spreadsheets) (FLASH)

Part 2 - Importing Akustyk's spreadsheets into Microsoft Access 2003 (FLASH)

Part 3 - Creating MS Access queries and exporting them into MS Excel (FLASH)

Part 4 - More queries with Microsoft Access (FLASH)

Creating SMIL presentations with Akustyk:

Part 1 - Creating a one-tier TextGrid object (FLASH) new!

Part 2 - Intro to transcribing audio files (FLASH) new!

Part 3 - Create a one-tier SMIL presentation from a TextGrid object (FLASH)

Selected bibliography

Here's a brief list of articles that you might find useful in relation to Akustyk