14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)

San Francisco, CA, USA
August 1-7, 1999


Synchronous Recording of EPG and Speech Signals using a Computer's Sound Interface

Michel Scheffers, Werner Thon

Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of Kiel, Germany

Electro-palatograph systems that allow time-synchronous capture of the EPG data and the corresponding speech signal, typically require a special interface card for the connection to a computer. This makes them dependent on the type of computer and its operating system.
   Most computers used in speech research are nowadays equipped with high-quality 16-bit stereo analogue I/O. We therefore explored encoding the digital EPG data in an analogue signal within the bandwidth and the dynamic range required for a high-quality speech recording. This analogue EPG signal may then be recorded on any PC, MAC or workstation having such a sound interface. Recording it in stereo with the speech signal ensures perfect time-synchronization. System-dependency is thus reduced to the decoding and display software.
   We illustrate the coding and decoding principles by describing an experimental hardware implementation of the coder and the decoding software.

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Bibliographic reference.  Scheffers, Michel / Thon, Werner (1999): "Synchronous recording of EPG and speech signals using a computer's sound interface", In ICPhS-14, 2255-2258.