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Sound files for the IPA Handbook
I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are now available for all of the language examples in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association . See
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook.htm , where you can download a file for an individual language or you can download the whole schmear in one 93-megabyte file. They're zip files, though, so you have to unzip them before you can listen to them.
The languages in the Handbook don't seem to be
systematically chosen; instead I suspect they represent whatever languages someone has submitted a paper about to the Journal of the IPA . For example, there's American English but no British English; Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese but no Spanish; Czech and Croatian but no Russian; and Swedish but no Norwegian.
As far as it goes, though, it looks like it should be a fun toy for us linguistics dilettantes.
Bob Cunningham, Southern California, USofA
Down with Miss Thistlebottom!
Let's hear it for "like" as a conjuction!
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook.htm , where you can download a file for an individual language or you can download the whole schmear in one 93-megabyte file. They're zip files, though, so you have to unzip them before you can listen to them.
The languages in the Handbook don't seem to be
systematically chosen; instead I suspect they represent whatever languages someone has submitted a paper about to the Journal of the IPA . For example, there's American English but no British English; Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese but no Spanish; Czech and Croatian but no Russian; and Swedish but no Norwegian.
As far as it goes, though, it looks like it should be a fun toy for us linguistics dilettantes.
Bob Cunningham, Southern California, USofA
Down with Miss Thistlebottom!
Let's hear it for "like" as a conjuction!
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Bob Cunningham filted: [nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ... in one 93-megabyte file. r
- Bob Cunningham filted: [nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ...
- in one 93-megabyte file.
- r
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Bob Cunningham filted:
[nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ... in one 93-megabyte file. They're zip files, though, so you have to unzip them before you can listen to them.[/nq]
Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a bunch of them on an SD card
[nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ... in one 93-megabyte file. They're zip files, though, so you have to unzip them before you can listen to them.[/nq]
Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a bunch of them on an SD card
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On 16 Sep 2004 12:20:26 -0700, R H Draney
[nq:1]Bob Cunningham filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery ... have to unzip them before you can listen to them.[/nq]
[nq:1]Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?[/nq]
WAV.
[nq:1]...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a bunch of them on an SD card in my PDA and annoy peopl
[nq:1]Bob Cunningham filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery ... have to unzip them before you can listen to them.[/nq]
[nq:1]Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?[/nq]
WAV.
[nq:1]...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a bunch of them on an SD card in my PDA and annoy peopl
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[nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ... Norwegian. As far as it goes, though, it looks like it should be a fun toy for us linguistics dilettantes.[/nq]
Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM.
Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM.
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[nq:1]I've come across what to me is a momentous discovery but to others here may be well-known: Sound files are ... them before you can listen to them. The languages in the Handbook don't seem to be systematically chosen;[/nq]
No, indeed - Basque, the mother of all languages, is inexplicably (and suspiciously) absent.
[nq:1]instead I suspect they represent whatever languages someone has s
No, indeed - Basque, the mother of all languages, is inexplicably (and suspiciously) absent.
[nq:1]instead I suspect they represent whatever languages someone has s
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Bob Cunningham filted:
[nq:2]Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?[/nq]
[nq:1]WAV.[/nq]
Drat...that means some time spent converting them...on the plus side, it means they'll be under ten meg in MP3 format..
[nq:2]...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a ... my PDA and annoy people on the bus with them..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Which do you suppose would ann
[nq:2]Once you've unzipped them, what format are the files in?[/nq]
[nq:1]WAV.[/nq]
Drat...that means some time spent converting them...on the plus side, it means they'll be under ten meg in MP3 format..
[nq:2]...if they're MP3 or something similar, I could put a ... my PDA and annoy people on the bus with them..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Which do you suppose would ann
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(about sound files for the speech examples in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association )
[nq:1]Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM.[/nq]
Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece, says in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association (1999 edition page 41)
The speech in the recording on which the
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[nq:1]Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM.[/nq]
Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece, says in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association (1999 edition page 41)
The speech in the recording on which the
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[nq:2]The languages in the Handbook don't seem to be systematically chosen;[/nq]
[nq:1]No, indeed - Basque, the mother of all languages, is inexplicably (and suspiciously) absent.[/nq]
I guess Basque would stand a better chance if anyone knew who its mother or its brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, or cousins was.
(I hate it, but I'm afraid "was"
[nq:1]No, indeed - Basque, the mother of all languages, is inexplicably (and suspiciously) absent.[/nq]
I guess Basque would stand a better chance if anyone knew who its mother or its brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, or cousins was.
(I hate it, but I'm afraid "was"
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[nq:1]By the way, does anyone ever wonder why I write "American English" in full instead of writing "AmE"? It smacks ... prefer to see AUE accessible to one and all without the necessity to ask for the meanings of esoteric abbreviations.[/nq]
Didn't some fellow go to the trouble of compiling a list of abbreviations, including "AmE", that are in common use in AUE?
Didn't some fellow go to the trouble of compiling a list of abbreviations, including "AmE", that are in common use in AUE?
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On 16 Sep 2004 15:19:36 -0700, R H Draney
(about annoying fellow bus riders with foreign-language sound files)
By the way, this reminds me of the unsavory character in Lil Abner who said something like, "That's the meanest, lowdownest, dirtiest, sneakiest thing a body could do ... so ah think ah'll do it!"
(I think I've mentioned that in AUE a time or three in past years.)
[nq
(about annoying fellow bus riders with foreign-language sound files)
By the way, this reminds me of the unsavory character in Lil Abner who said something like, "That's the meanest, lowdownest, dirtiest, sneakiest thing a body could do ... so ah think ah'll do it!"
(I think I've mentioned that in AUE a time or three in past years.)
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(about the sound files for the Handbook of the
International Phonetic Association )
[nq:1]Thanks, Bob. Noticing that Hungarian was available, I downloaded that one and had a listen to a word containing one ... be interested in their take on this sound. Does the word sound like 'hat', 'hot', 'hut', 'hawt, 'haht' or what?[/nq]
To anyone who is learning Hungarian, it would be well
International Phonetic Association )
[nq:1]Thanks, Bob. Noticing that Hungarian was available, I downloaded that one and had a listen to a word containing one ... be interested in their take on this sound. Does the word sound like 'hat', 'hot', 'hut', 'hawt, 'haht' or what?[/nq]
To anyone who is learning Hungarian, it would be well
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