Audacity Forum

True, you may not find conventional phrases by acoustic analysis. Galileo had the same problem with his telescope. What you find in speech is far more interesting than what's taught. But dramatic actors do read audiobooks with short pauses between groups of connected words, that match up reassuringl...

I have learned to speak a series of languages by listening to audiobooks, and repeating aloud in real time. To bootstrap listening comprehension I would 1) filter, to boost midrange vowel formants and high consonant bursts relative to the low vocal carrier wave, 2) compand, to boost the faint "rapid...