Acoustic Phonetic Characteristics of Kannada Language
Acoustic phonetics studies the physical properties of sounds and provides a language to distinguish one sound from another in quality and quantity. A study of acoustic characteristics of kannada begins with the phonemic analysis of the language. Phone to Phone relationship level is studied using Fifteen million words text corpus. Four hundred and forty five simple and most frequently using kannada words were selected and used to measure duration, intensity, frequency and formants of the phonemes in different emotional status and at different levels. Praat software and Pearl software were used for the purpose of analysis of output.
Keywords: Intensity, Frequency, peaks and Formants.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hemakumar G
I Hemakumar G. B.Sc, M.Sc, M.Phil. I started my teaching profession from University Evening College, University of Mysore, Mysore and having 7 years’ teaching experience and 3 years of research experience. At present I am working in the prestigious institution i.e., Government College for Women, Mandya. I am working for UGC Sponsored minor research project and My interest areas of research are Automatic Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition and Digital Signal Processing.
Hemakumar G
I Hemakumar G. B.Sc, M.Sc, M.Phil. I started my teaching profession from University Evening College, University of Mysore, Mysore and having 7 years’ teaching experience and 3 years of research experience. At present I am working in the prestigious institution i.e., Government College for Women, Mandya. I am working for UGC Sponsored minor research project and My interest areas of research are Automatic Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition and Digital Signal Processing.
