ARES: An environment for speech analysis and labelling

The ARES (analyze, represent, and elaborate speech) software environment, based on the Tektronix 4125 workstation and VAX 11/750 computer is presented. The sampling procedure makes it possible to store in a RA81 disk up to 6.5 h of speech at a 10 kHz sampling rate. The information related to each utterance is organized in a database. Fundamental characteristics of speech, waveform, power spectrum, pitch, and such other useful parameters as formant frequency and zero crossing rate are computed using an array processor and are displayed with the Tektronix graphic facility. The software organization makes it easy to introduce a new feature pattern, and a special graphic option makes it possible to represent these new data in the old scale.<
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