Worksheet for exercise 4.5.  Note that joe.dat has a sampling rate of 16000 samples/s, not the 8000 samples/s that lpc_spectrum expects. So, try applying lpc_spectrum to joe8k.dat instead. (This worksheet can be printed in landscape orientation on one side of A4 paper.)







Measured from joe8k.dat using lpc_spectrum
Olive et al. (1993)
(American male)
Cruttenden (2001)
(British male)


Sample numbers
¼ vowel
¾ vowel
¼ vowel
¾ vowel
First component
Second component
Vowel

Vowel start
Vowel end
¼ vowel
¾ vowel
F1
(Hz)
F2
(Hz)
F3
(Hz)

F1
(Hz)

F2
(Hz)
F3
(Hz)

F1
(Hz)
F2
(Hz)

F3
(Hz)

F1
(Hz)

F2
(Hz)

F3
(Hz)

F1
(Hz)

F2
(Hz)

F1
(Hz)

F2
(Hz)

(J)oe
[schwa U]










550
1000

400
800

537
1266
379
1024
(t)oo(k)
[U]










450
950
2400
450
950
2400
414
1051
414
1051
(f)a
[ah ]










750
1100
2600
750
1100
2600
687
1077
687
1077
(th)er(s)
[schwa ]










500
1500
2500
500
1500
2500




(sh)oe
[ju]










300
1800

300
850
2400


316
1191
(b)e(nch)
[eh ]










550
1700
2550
550
1700
2550
494
1650
494
1650
ou(t).
U]










800
1350

550
900

780
1368
372
1074
(Sh)e
[i]










280
2250
2750
280
2250
2750
280
2249
280
2249
(w)a(s)
[schwa ]










500
1500
2500
500
1500
2500




(w)ai
[eI]










500
1750

>250
2250

587
1945
413
2130
(t)i(ng)
[I]










400
1900
2600
400
1900
2600
367
1757
367
1757
a(t)
[schwa ]










500
1500
2500
500
1500
2500




(m)y
[ah I]










800
1300

>250
1950

734
1117
439
2058
(l)aw(n).
[aw ]










650
900
2500
650
900
2500
415
828
415
828