The objective of this experiment is to study the relation between formant frequencies of a vocal tract system and the perception of sounds. This is achieved through construction of a source-system based formant synthesizer. An all-pole filter designed for a given set of formant frequencies is used as the system. The all-pole system is excited with a train of impulses as the excitation source signal constructed using the pitch information.

Software pre-requisites

• Operating system: GNU/Linux, MS Windows xp and above, Mac OS 10.6 and above

• Browser: Firefox 6+, Safari, Opera 10+

• Browser plugins: Oracle/Sun Java JRE and plugin Version-6

Install Java Plugin to run the Simulation0

Hardware pre-requisites (minimum)

• CPU: 1 GHz

• Memory: 1 GB

• Audio: Sound card with recording and playback options

• Audio: Speakers/headphones and microphone

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