Cornell Phonetics Laboratory

Our laboratory provides an integrated environment for the experimental study of speech and language, including its production, perception, and acquisition. Located in Morrill Hall, the laboratory consists of 6 adjacent rooms and covers about 1600 sq. ft. Its facilities include a variety of hardware and software for analyzing and editing speech, for running experiments, for synthesizing speech, and for developing and testing phonetic, phonological, and psycholinguistic models.

Sound-recording facilities Our isolated sound recording booth serves a range of purposes--from basic recording to perceptual and psycholinguistic experimentation.
Articulatory movement tracking We use the Northern Digital Inc. Wave motion-capture system to study speech articulatory patterns and motor control.
Ultrasound Our GE LOGIQbook portable ultrasound is used for studying vocal tract kinematics and dynamics.
Electoglottography We use a Glottal Enterprises EG-2 electroglottograph for noninvasive measurement of vocal fold vibration.
Speech Aerodynamics Studies of the aerodynamics of speech production are conducted with our Glottal Enterprises oral and nasal airflow and pressure transducers.
Corpora The Phonetics Lab maintains access to a variety of corpora used by the Department of Linguistics. >>See a list of our corpus holdings.