Description

Cost: £20 per person, including refreshments and lunch.

Note that places are strictly limited, although the workshop may be repeated at a later date if there is sufficient demand.

To register: Send Registration form to Linda Canty at the IOA
Further info: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/events/ioa-recording.html

Programme

Speech Recording and Analysis
for Professionals in Speech and Hearing

A One Day Tutorial Workshop, jointly organised by the Centre for Human Communication, University College London and the Speech & Hearing Group of the Institute of Acoustics.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 9.45 am - 4.30 pm

Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London

Chandler House, Wakefield Street, London

The workshop will be of interest to professionals involved in speech and hearing, including:
• speech and language therapists
• teachers of the deaf
• educational audiologists
• clinical audiologists

The workshops will demonstrate the issues involved in making recordings of sufficiently high quality for acoustic analysis of speech, for purposes which may include diagnosis and analysis of speech and hearing pathologies and other impairments.

Topics covered include:

• Fundamentals of making good recordings and storing data
• Practical considerations for the recording environment (room acoustics/noise)
• What you need to be aware of when making purchasing decisions
• Analysis of speech recordings, including producing and using spectrograms
• Measurement of formant frequencies, pitch and voice quality

The day will include plenary sessions, tutorials and “hands on” laboratory sessions led by experts in the field, including:

Dr. Patrick Naylor, communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College, London
Dr. Mark Huckvale, department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL

Travel

University College London
Research Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF

How to find Chandler House
UCL is situated in Bloomsbury, near the centre of London, close to the West End. It is well-served by a variety of public transport services. Chandler House is located in Wakefield Street, about 500m south of King's Cross and St. Pancras stations. It is not recommended that you travel by car, since no visitor parking spaces are available. Also Chandler House is located within the London Congestion Charge Zone.


by Underground
• Kings Cross & St. Pancras Station (Northern, Victoria, Metropolitan, Circle & Picadilly lines)
• Russell Square Station (Piccadilly line)
by Bus
• Gray's Inn Road: 17, 45, 46.
• Woburn Place: 59, 68, 91, 168
• Euston Road: 10, 30, 59, 73, 91, 205, 390, 476
• Russell Square: 7, 188

from British Rail stations
To Kings Cross & St. Pancras:
• Charing Cross - take Northern line
• Euston - take Victoria or Northern line
• Liverpool Street - take Metropolitan or Circle line
• London Bridge - take Northern line
• Marylebone - take Metropolitan or Circle line
• Paddington - take Metropolitan or Circle line
• Victoria - take Victoria line
• Waterloo - take Bakerloo line and change to Victoria line at Oxford Circus

Documents

• Registration Form PDF, 458KB
• Meeting Notice PDF, 657KB

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