This page contains approximately 175 links to resources for learning fundamental concepts and conducting research in phonetics. For details about the design and organization of this page, see the final Appendix section.
Highlighted resource: Learn about intonation on the Possible Phrase-final Tonal Configurations in American English page.
See Extensive Websites for Learning Phonetics (Education page) for many comprehensive resources, not specific to any one topic.
Sagittal sections
Vowel articulation
Movement and motor control
Imaging
General information and resources
Interactive (click-to-hear) IPA charts
Quizzing yourself
Note: Both of the above resources are based on British English.
Tools for typing/displaying the IPA
Airstream mechanisms
Clicks
Larynx
General introductions to prosody
Listen to the same English words/phrases pronounced with varying intonation patterns
Learn more about the English intonation system
Intonation systems of various other languages
General acoustics
Speech acoustics
Spectrograms
Pedagogical software
Hearing
Speech perception
Learning about speech synthesis
Demos of speech synthesis
Demos of speech recognition
Lexical resources for designing experiments
Recording tips
Typological databases
While most corpora are sold commercially (many by the Linguistic Data Consortium), speech datasets are increasingly being distributed online for free. The websites linked below contain speech data that can either be browsed/downloaded immediately or require only a free registration process.
Repositories with holdings for various languages
Speech datasets for English
Isolated words/syllables
American English
British English
World Englishes
Non-native speakers
With electroglottograph (EGG) data
Speech datasets for other specific languages
The majority of the links on this page point to external websites included in the large list of many hundreds of links from Joaquim Llisterri (Autonomous University of Barcelona) or other collections of links contained therein.
The links on this page here were hand-selected to be maximally useful as a supplement a graduate-level course in linguistic phonetics where English is the medium of instruction. The links are grouped by the different areas in which they typically arise in such a context.
The overall goal is to be a well-organized portal to only the most important resources, not to comprehensively index the contents of each site. As such, there is generally only one link per domain (at the highest level of the website relevant for phonetics).
Also, due to the nature of YouTube and Wikipedia, nothing from those sites is linked here. However, a large body of excellent material can be found there (e.g. videos of the cardinal vowels and laryngeal anatomy on YouTube).
Mixed in with the external links are a handful of PDFs and webpages developed and hosted locally at Indiana University. PDFs in this category are marked as [Internal, PDF]. Likewise, webpages that pop up in a separate window are marked with [Internal, Pop-up].
