English Linguistics->Phonetics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Phonetics->Conference
English Linguistics->Phonetics->In-depth study

BAAP is the professional organisation for phoneticians in the British Isles. Its members are involved in research in phonetics, in teaching phonetics in higher education, and in the application of phonetic knowledge in areas such as speech and language therapy, speech technology and forensic science.
The Association holds a regular Colloquium, currently every two years. This provides an opportunity for members and invited participants to meet, present their research, and discuss issues of concern to the academic community.
In this web-page, regular colloquium history menu is available. In particular, BAAP web-site provides a lot of central links of use to the people interested in phonetics.

URL : http://www.baap.ac.uk/

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This is the official website of the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. CSLU is an active research center that is commited to advanced spoken language technologies and to educate a workforce who can build and use speech technology.

This website offers a great deal of information about what CSLU is and does. Its current and past projects, publications, education programs, and much more can be found on the website. More importantly, the sites provide visitors with learning experiences related to language technologies. 'CSLU Toolkit' and 'Demos' are especially worth trying. For example, the spectrogram reading tutorial (http://speech.bme.ogi.edu/tutordemos/SpectrogramReading/spectrogram_reading.html) will definitely be useful for those who teach and learn how to read spectrograms.

This site is useful for phoneticians and phonologists and engineers particularly interested in speech technologies. Lecturers of phonetics classes will also find it useful.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/

Keyword(s) : phonetics, phonetician, phonologist, speech technology

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This is the official website of the Department of Phonetics & Linguistics at the University College of London. As the name of the department suggests, the department is particularly committed to the study of speech sound. Their research is mainly centered on phonetics and includes acquisition of speech, speech perception, speech synthesis, and more.

The website provides basic information about the department such as faculty interests, degree requirements, and so forth. More interestingly, the site has a Web Tutorials menu, where visitors can find several online lectures about phonetics. IPA fonts, softwares, and many articles on phonetics are also downloadable.

This site will be useful for (prospective) graduate students who are interested in phonetics and speech technologies.

This site was last updated in 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/

Keyword(s) : phonetics, speech technologies, linguistics department

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This is the official website of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. CSTR is an active interdisciplinary research group concerned with speech recognition, speech sythesis, and other speech technologies.

This website gives a great deal of information about CSTR, its current projects, seminars and conference schedules. The current research covers speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech signal processing, information access, multimodal interfaces, dialogue systems, machine learning, and acoustic phonetics. More importantly, the website has an archive of articles written by CSTR members which visitors can download. The site also contains several downloadable softwares on speech technologies and corpora.

This site will be useful for phoneticians particularly interested in speech perception and synthesis, and for computer scientists or engineers interested in human speech.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/

Keyword(s) : phonetics, speech technology, software, corpora

English Linguistics->Phonetics->School or Organization

The International Phonetic Association (IPA) was established in 1886 in Paris. It is the major as well as the oldest representative organization for phoneticians.

The goal of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of phonetics. In pursuit of this goal, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages--the International Phonetic Alphabet (also IPA). Furthermore, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is available to IPA members, non-members, and institutions.

This site will be useful for those who are interested in phonetics in general. It is also helpful for the people who want to get information on IPA or download IPA fonts and sounds.

This site was last updated in Sep. 2006.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/index.html

Keyword(s) : IPA, International Phonetic Association, phonetics