Subject: Speech Processing

Topic: Speech Production, Acoustic Phonetics and Auditory Perception

Difficulty: Low

(i) ENGLISH VOWELS:

Vowels are voiced components of the sound i.e. a,e,i,o,u. The excitation is the periodic excitation generated by the fundamental frequency of the vocal cords and the sound gets modulated when it passes via the vocal tract. Speech of signals of the three vowels (a,e,i) are recorded. The …