I found that people don't often understand that we speak in a home key, let alone the implications of this for music production.

It's way quicker to get good vocal takes if you work with the psychology of speech melodies before recording. For instance, many vocalists change their natural speaking voice by 1 or 2 semitones when they are trying to 'be professional'. Being able to calm them down will save you a lot of time, make it more likely that you'll nail the take early on, and save a lot of hassle in post.

Fundamental principles:

• We have a root note, which provides the basis for our speech melodies.
• We tend to change this note if we are stressed, tired, drunk, etc.
• Meaning is conveyed through the melody of our words in relation to this root note.
• The root note is for function words (conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions, etc.).
• The melody is for content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs).

In this post I'll focus mostly on the root note. Briefly, however, I'll break it down with an example.

Let's take that phrase: I'll break it down with an example**.** The function words are in bold. In speech, these words would be spoken on your root note, let's say it's F#.

The melody of the 3 content words would change, according to many subtle factors. Think of all the ways you could say it, according to who you're talking to, what you're feeling, how you perceive yourself in relation to them, etc. All of these are expressed through melody.

Mostly, though, I'm going to focus on the root note, because that is the fundamental key we speak in.

Speech Melodies (voice overs, talking).

If I'm sent vocals that have already been recorded, different ways to find out the root note:

• Convert a portion of the vocal to MIDI notes. Listen and look for the function words, like, and, so, I, but, with etc. Even if you know 0 music theory, you can just see on the piano roll what note matches those words (you might need to adjust the conversion for errors first).
• If you trust your ear, match a note on keyboard to their grammar. It will sound right underneath their whole take.
• Check it with an EQ. Their root note has the highest peaks and coincides with their grammatical functions.

Things you can do more quickly with this knowledge:

• Backing tracks. Now you know they talk in F#, you can put a karaoke mp3 of I Believe by Cher behind their voice over and send it to them on WhatsApp.
• On a serious note, it just m

Summary of Publication:

> The radio production workflow typically involves recording material, selecting which parts of that material to use, and then editing the desired material down to the final output. Some radio producers find this process easier with paper rather than editing directly on a screen, which makes a transcript the common denominator. However, after deciding which audio they want to use, producers then must use a digital audio workstation to manually execute those editorial decisions, which is a tedious and slow process. In this paper, the authors describe the design, development, and evaluation of PaperClip, a novel system for editing speech recordings directly on a printed transcript using a digital pen. A user study with eight professional radio producers compared editing with the digital pen to editing with a screen interface. The two interfaces each had advantages and disadvantages. The pen interface was better for fast and simple editing of familiar audio when accurate transcripts were available. The screen interface was better for more complex editing with less familiar audio and less accurate transcripts. There was no overall preference.

• PDF Download: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/download.cfm/19390.pdf?ID=19390
• Permalink: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=19390
• Affiliations: BBC Research and Development, London, UK; Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK(See document for exact affiliation information.)
• Authors: Baume, Chris; Plumbley, Mark D.; Frohlich, David; Calic, Janko
• Publication Date: 2018-04-29
• Introduced at: JAES Volume 66 Issue 4 pp. 241-252; April 2018

I'm curious about opinions on how dentition may or may not affect speech production. It seems like this comes up every now and then with parents who think that their child's dentition is somehow the reason for their speech disorder (even when the errors are for /r/ or 'th'). Many mention how their dentist told them their child may need speech therapy (I've seen this on dentist websites as well).

I was not taught that dentition plays that big of a role in whether a child will develop a speech sound disorder. I used to think that certain things, like missing all your front teeth, may impact your production of /s/, for example, but even then I have spoken to several SLPs who have said you can still remediate an /s/ with missing teeth.

If anything, I could see how occlusion might impact development of certain sounds e.g. an underbite might make it difficult to produce /f/ or an open bite might make it difficult to produce /s,z/ but even then, I have worked with children who have these malocclusions and some can produce these sounds and others struggle, which makes me think there are too many other factors impacting speech sound production.

I feel like I'm rambling but basically, am I missing something? Does dentition make a big difference? Or are our parents being misled by dentists?

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Just wondering if anyone else had completed this study a few days ago? Part 1 was reading sentences aloud for about 25 minutes. Part 2 was using headphones to detect tones. I WAS wearing headphones and had no problem hearing the tone in the sample, but I did not hear a single tone after the sample.

Just trying to figure out if there was an issue with Part 2 or if something is wrong with my hearing (or my headphones) . Was told I failed Part 2 and asked to return study. I emailed the researcher with that info (i.e., that I was wearing headphones, heard the sample tone, but no tones thereafter) , but no response as of yet. Fingers crossed re getting paid for Part 1. Hopefully no issue there, but still confused about Part 2 issue. Did anyone with better headphones or hearing complete it?

This is clearly what I think watching the episode again as she screams at the members of the production. So I don't understand why she is making a big deal out of it knowing that she probably knew that this speech was not coming from the girls themselves...

What part in the brain is MOSTLY responsible?

In this paper, we present a new open source, production first and production ready end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition toolkit named WeNet. The main motivation of WeNet is to close the gap between the research and the production of E2E speech recognition models. WeNet provides an efficient way to ship ASR applications in several real-world scenarios, which is the main difference and advantage to other open source E2E speech recognition toolkits. This paper introduces WeNet from three aspects, including model architecture, framework design and performance metrics. Our experiments on AISHELL-1 using WeNet, not only give a promising character error rate (CER) on a unified streaming and non-streaming two pass (U2) E2E model but also show reasonable RTF and latency, both of these aspects are favored for production adoption. The toolkit is publicly available at https://github.com/mobvoi/wenet.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01547.pdf

And, the out of the box open code is here: https://github.com/mobvoi/wenet

Hi everyone! My team is a group of graduate students at Hunan University, China. Our project is about how to promote English speech perception and production of Chinese learners of English.

The ideal candidate should be US English native speakers with no knowledge of Mandarin (Chinese) and any other languages of Eastern countries, such as Japanese, Korean, etc. The age should be from 18 to 27 years old. Last but not least, he or she should have normal hearing and not any speech impairments.

The experiment material including instructions will be sent to the participants by email, and conducted as required of the instructions in a quiet environment (your home or any other place you like). The experiment will last about 1.5 hours (besides the preparation work, such as software installment and instruction reading, etc.) and be paid 30 dollars in total through PayPal. It will be remitted in advance upon your agreement. It is hoped to be completed before February 25, 2021.

If you would like to join the experiment, please fill in the following table and send it back to the mailbox hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn with subject line “Linguistics experiment + name.” The material is only for the experiment use and will be sealed after that. Thank you!

1.Name

2.Sex

3.Age

4.Mother tongue

5.Right-handed / left-handed?

6.Educational level

7.School

8.Major

9.Any music training? And how long (months)?

10.Any hearing problems?

11. Contact (Tel)

12. Valid PayPal email

Any questions can be directed to Michael at hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn.

Thank you in advance for your time!

Context

For quick context, I was diagnosed with a speech disorder when I was young, in which I could think fine and know what I wanted to say, but I was unintelligible to listeners (my parents could hardly even understand me, the only person who could was my slightly older sister I shared a room with). I got years of speech therapy in elementary school, and now am off in the other direction, being a bit overly articulate and well spoken.

However, I have never had a very expressive voice. I may say expressive things, but generally I have an ever-enduring, calm tone (which some people like). I hardly modulate my pitch at all (but I do not have amusia, I can hear pitch).

A few years ago, I discovered my #1 passion is singing. Even though I can hear pitch, the performance of pitching came so unnaturally to me. For over two years, I was genuinely way off pitch, even if I could hear it myself. Finally, I am getting better, but every time I begin singing it requires a period of "getting into the zone." Then when my voice clicks into gear, it's the most natural thing in the world, and my years of training tone and technique are allowed to shine when the pitch is accurate. But the key feeling is that feeling of unnaturalness of pitch if I try to "just sing," like so many other people can.

Main Question

Do any of you know of any research papers I could read on these topics? Most resources I find on apraxia of speech focus on articulation, but I am wondering if maybe there was a similar issue of pitch which may have been affected and gone unresolved for me. I certainly face some unique challenges with singing compared to others, and the same pitching exercises that help others do not help me with this challenge. I think it is time for me to start researching if this could be linked to my natural disorder.

Thank you in advance for any information/help! :)

Hi everyone! My team is a group of phD students at Hunan University, China. Our project is about how to promote English speech perception and production of Chinese learners of English**.**

The ideal candidate should be US English native speakers with no knowledge of Mandarin (Chinese) and any other languages of Eastern countries, such as Japanese, Korean, etc. The age should be from 18 to 27 years old. Last but not least, he or she should have normal hearing and not any speech impairments.

The experiment material including instructions will be sent to the participants by email, and conducted as required of the instructions in a quiet environment (your home or any other place you like). The experiment will last about 1.5 hours (besides the preparation work, such as software installment and instruction reading, etc.) and be paid 30 dollars in total through PayPal. It will be remitted in advance upon your agreement. It is hoped to be completed before February 25, 2021.

If you would like to join the experiment, please fill in the following table and send it back to the mailbox hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn with subject line “Linguistics experiment + name.” The material is only for the experiment use and will be sealed after that. Thank you!

Any questions can be directed to Michael at hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn.

Thank you in advance for your time!

Hi everyone! My team is a group of phD students at Hunan University, China. Our project is about how to promote English speech perception and production of Chinese learners of English**.**

The ideal candidate should be US English native speakers with no knowledge of Mandarin (Chinese) and any other languages of Eastern countries, such as Japanese, Korean, etc. The age should be from 18 to 27 years old. Last but not least, he or she should have normal hearing and not any speech impairments.

The experiment material including instructions will be sent to the participants by email, and conducted as required of the instructions in a quiet environment (your home or any other place you like). The experiment will last about 1.5 hours (besides the preparation work, such as software installment and instruction reading, etc.) and be paid 30 dollars in total through PayPal. It will be remitted in advance upon your agreement. It is hoped to be completed before February 25, 2021.

If you would like to join the experiment, please fill in the following table and send it back to the mailbox hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn with subject line “Linguistics experiment + name.” The material is only for the experiment use and will be sealed after that. Thank you!

1.Name

2.Sex

3.Age

4.Mother tongue

5.Right-handed / left-handed?

6.Educational level

7.School

8.Major

9.Any music training? And how long (months)?

10.Any hearing problems?

11. Contact (Tel)

12. Valid PayPal email

Any questions can be directed to Michael at hmmachael@hnu.edu.cn.

Thank you in advance for your time!