Formant Analyzer coverges Linguistics and Signal Analysis

Post date: Mar 29, 2014 12:37:0 AM

Formant Analyzer, once updated with corrections, will be a great tool for speech therapy, linguistic analysis, language acquisition training, signal analysis. IT plots the formant audio signals created by the human vocal track that are the physical basis for phonemes in each language. It provides an x coordinate for how open the mouth is, and a Y coordinate for how far front or back the resonant vocal cavity is in the mouth. Then it provides mapped areas labeled with the international phonetic alphabet. What a great idea for an app! This opens up everything from physiology to comparative phonetics, from audio signal analysis to pattern recognition in a single window! Many other insightful graphs are build in, including the amount trimmed for identification and a variety of representations of the signal. I'm looking forward to the next versions of Formant Analyzer. Currently, the calculated plot point does not move far enough across the x and y coordinates to hit the vowel areas as labeled, and the help screen, once taken to GitHub can not be reset to the starting screen. But these should be easy to overcome.