Re: Kyrgyz was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

At 9:38 AM +0100 2/27/03, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>* Peter Clark said on 2003-02-26 14:20:57 +0100
>> Well, as I mentioned to Yitzik in a private email, my Kyrgyz-speaking friend
>> is coming in April, so I will be sure to pepper her with questions. Now
>> accepting suggestions!
>
>Record (as in sound) some saying in Kyrgyz, then map it by hand to IPA
>later, or feed it to a computer and a program like Praat[*], which can find
>the phones for you.
Praat is not a phon(em)e detector. You can do all sorts of things with speech
analysis using Praat (including segmenting and labelling sound files -- it even
includes an Optimality Theory tutorial and machine-learning simulations), but
phone identification still has to be done the old-fashioned way.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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