Re: PHONO: websites on comparative phonologies?
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 4, 2002, 11:19 |
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>Go to www.sil.org and download the IPA helper tool. It has complete
>carts, as well as recorded examples (including "weird" stuff like creaky
>voice!). I've found it amazingly helpful.
I tried it, and it didn't help me much (but I'm not a beginner and I'm already
familiar with most of the IPA sounds). The .wav files were not of very good
quality. Though I'll give it some points for providing real-world examples in
various languages of certain sounds.
The symbols with diacritics didn't show up right either. They all looked like
letters with dots or ticks below them.
Since I have a decent mic and good ol' Sound Recorder that will convert .wav
files to low-but-adequate quality .mp3s (that is, 56 kbits/sec at 24 kHz stereo
or mono maximum), I'd do better just making my own sound files. And I'll just
use those to drill myself.
~Danny~
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