James M. Hillenbrand* (retired May 2018)
- Courses (former)
- SPPA 2060 (Hearing Science)
- SPPA 2040 (Phonetics)
- SPPA 6030 (Anatomy & Physiology of Hearing and Balance)
- SPPA 5010 (Speech Science)
- SPPA 6150 (Research Methods)
- SPPA 6190 (Quantitative Methods)
- Research, Publications, Software
- Vita
- Papers
- Vowel database [Hillenbrand, Getty, Clark & Wheeler (1995). Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 3099-3111]
- Alvin2 (Windows only. Note: This
version has been phased out. See the Alvin3 links
below.)
- Full install
- Getting started with alvin2
- Documentation (This manuscript describes phonetics exercises using Alvin2/Alvin3, but the documentation applies more generally to the software package as a whole. See especially "How Alvin Works.")
- Alvin3 [Notes: (1) The documentation in the link
above applies to Alvin3 as well. (2) A few of the capabilities of
Alvin2 have not yet been implemented in Alvin3. (3) Control files
developed for Alvin2 are compatible with Alvin3.]
- Alvin3 for Windows [Update: January 2018]
- Alvin3 for Mac OS X NOTES: (1) How to fix 'unknown developer' error.(2) IMPORTANT: The Mac version of Alvin3 will no longer be supported. If you are interested, see this short document for an explanation.
- Original release of Alvin (This version is obsolete; Alvin2 and Alvin3 are much better choices.)
- SpeechTool (aka Ztool)
- SpeechTool with CPP scripts installer: 1. Install & run SpeechTool; 2. Open a .wav file (single channel - no stereo); 3. Click CPPV (sustained vowel) or CPPCS (connected speech). IMPORTANT: The CPP scripts crash on signals with high sample frequencies (e.g., 44.1 & 48 kHz). Click this link for a description of two simple ways around this bug.
- Klsyn: Klatt & Klatt (1990) synthesizer, runs in interacvtive mode from a Windows command prompt or Cygwin window (http://www.cygwin.com/). Documentation: Klsyn.txt. (April 2005 bug fix to .wav header writing function)
- cpps.exe (right click and choose "Save target as"); Readme file
- tcor
- Personal
- Family (I need to update this one of these days)
- Kate's web page
- Isabel shopping
- Miscellaneous
- Class of 2002 (jpg)
- Class of 2004 (jpg)
- Photos: Spring Banquet, 2016
*Portrait by an unidentified wisenheimer grad student.
Contact: james.hillenbrand@wmich.edu
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Speech and Hearing Center, Room 218
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Phone: (269) 387-8066
Fax: (269) 387-8044
URL: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~hillenbr
Revised <April 2002>
