Making Sense of Sound: Intro to Acoustic Analysis

Course Description

Why does your voice sound different on a recording? How can we tell speakers apart just by listening? What makes vowels sound different from each other?

In this course, you will learn to see what you hear. Using Praat, a software that lets you visualize and measure speech, you will explore the acoustic properties of speech.

No prior technical experience required.

You will learn:

• How sound works

• Reading spectrograms

• Analyzing vowels and consonants acoustically

• Measuring pitch, duration, and intensity