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tristn:

Holy fuck it’s a plot of my vowel formants!
I had to record me saying “please say [word] for me” where [word] was one of 109 words. I then I had to to go through the 109 tokens, and with the help of some PRAAT scripting, highlight and label the vowel steady-state of each token and extract an mp3 of the vowel. This took hours.
But look at this plot! I made it!
One nice thing about the F1/F2 plot is that it corresponds to the traditional vowel space with front vowels on the left and high vowels on the top of the plot. Two 20ms samples of each vowel were taken, one at the “head” and one at the “tail” of the vowel. You need two measurements because diphthongs and deviantly diphthongish monophthongs start and end in different places articulatorily and acoustically. This is what the vectors on the plot show. And as you can see, I’ve got a healthy diphthong in bite.

I have absolutely no idea what any of this means. But the frequency of exclamation marks in your explanation made me really happy

Holy fuck it’s a plot of my vowel formants!

I had to record me saying “please say [word] for me” where [word] was one of 109 words. I then I had to to go through the 109 tokens, and with the help of some PRAAT scripting, highlight and label the vowel steady-state of each token and extract an mp3 of the vowel. This took hours.

But look at this plot! I made it!

One nice thing about the F1/F2 plot is that it corresponds to the traditional vowel space with front vowels on the left and high vowels on the top of the plot. Two 20ms samples of each vowel were taken, one at the “head” and one at the “tail” of the vowel. You need two measurements because diphthongs and deviantly diphthongish monophthongs start and end in different places articulatorily and acoustically. This is what the vectors on the plot show. And as you can see, I’ve got a healthy diphthong in bite.

I have absolutely no idea what any of this means. But the frequency of exclamation marks in your explanation made me really happy