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From: karenj@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Karen Jenkin)
Subject: glottal stops
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Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 06:55:26 GMT
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How does a phonetician decide whether a vowel at the start of a sentence, say,
is preceded by a glottal stop? Do you look at the spectrogram or features of
the speech signal, and/or listen for a particular glottal characteristic?

The reason I am asking is that the Timit database's phonetic transcriptions
sometimes have a glottal stop before a starting vowel, and sometimes not. I
*really* want to know the criteria that were set for making the decision.

Please email me if you have any comments/ideas: karenj@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au

Thanks in advance,
Karen
