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Peterson Barney: Vowel formant frequency database

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This directory contains the Peterson and Barney vowel formant frequency database, as used in their 1952 JASA paper. Peterson and Barney measured the frequency and amplitude of F1, F2 and F3 for 10 vowels and 76 speakers.
Origin:   

   ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/ldc/pb.data.tar.Z

Version: 5-JAN-93 CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1 Keywords: Authors!Barney, Authors!Peterson, Speech Recognition!Databases, Speech Synthesis!Databases, Vowel Formant Frequency Database References: Peterson and Barney, "Control methods used in a study of the vowels", JASA 24, 175-184, 1952. Watrous, JASA, vol 89, May 1991
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