PRAAT skills for days

This week, I finally got my stimuli sorted!  I learned how to navigate PRAAT scripts, and how to make them work for my purposes.  We segmented gates for the 4IAX task, ramped the vowel and novowel gates so the words sound more natural, and normalized the stimuli so...

Not Much Progress…

Every week brings new changes. My project needed new stimuli (real English words and fake ‘English’ words) that need to be recorded. Every time I get close to finishing it, there seems to be a new problem. Luckily, I have the speakers for the stimuli...

Practice Makes Perfect…?

This week we finalized the gates for stimuli for the threshold task, and the next step will be creating the actual trials.  We also chose the practice items, and decided (more or less) how to present them!  Participants will familiarize themselves with Spanish...

The weeks keep flying by…

Hi Everyone! My name is Angelica and I cannot believe it is almost July. This summer seems to be flying by and before I know it, we’re going to be back at State College! Which is super exciting. This project is something that I’ve been working on for so...

Weeks 1-2

These first two weeks have been dedicated to getting everything up and running.  So far, I’ve been editing the stimuli gates for my 4IAX threshold task in PRAAT and sorting through existing stimuli from previous experiments in Dr. Carlson’s lab.  We have...