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From: blix@asimov.cs.uiuc.edu (Gunnar Blix)
Subject: Re: Peterson and Barney's data
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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 20:57:32 GMT
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spiegel@din.bellcore.com (Murray Spiegel) writes:

>|> Does someone know how I could get the data used by Peterson and Barney
>|> in their 1952 JASA paper ('Control methods used in a study of the vowels,'
>|> JASA 24, 175-184)? Peterson and Barney measured the frequency and amplitude
>|> of F1, F2 and F3 for 10 vowels and 76 speakers. Any information on this
>|> point would be very helpful.

>I obtained a file documented in Watrous, JASA, vol 89, May 1991 
>via anonymous ftp from linc.cis.upenn.edu in directory pub.
>It appears to be no longer there, so I've put it up via anonymous ftp 
>from thumper.bellcore.com in directory spiegel.

>	pb.data.tar.Z  - 18147 bytes

>I will leave it there for a couple months.

Besides the data documented there, Hillenbrand and colleagues recently
outlined in a JASA paper (1993) the procedure they used to generate a
full set of stimuli based on the Peterson and Barney data (F0 - F3),
the Dunn data (B1 - B3), and Syrdal and Rabiner's data (higher
formants - see their paper for the complete references) using the
Klatt synthesizer.  Unfortunately, the actual files are no longer
available, but we are in the process of recreating the data by
following their procedure, and would like to make the Klatt .doc files
available if there is interest.

On a related note, it would be very useful to get the Klatt cookbook
in a similar format (.doc files).  I am sure that there must be many
labs that have doc files for parts of the cookbook.  If there is
interest and people are willing to supply some of these, I could
volunteer to collect them and create a tar file.  Any suggestions for
a suitable location for the results?

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