James M. Hillenbrand* (aka Dr. Strangenoise)

• Courses
• 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
  • Research interests: speech perception, speech acoustics, synthesis, voice quality
• 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 is being phased out. See Alvin3.)
  • 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) Some capabilities of Alvin2 have not yet been implemented in Alvin3. (3) Control files developed for Alvin2 are compatible with Alvin3.]
  • Alvin3 for Windows
  • Alvin3 for Mac OS X (How to fix 'unknown developer' error.)
• Original release of Alvin (This version is obsolete; Alvin2 and Alvin3 are much better choices.)
  • Full install v 1.27, 8/9/2007
  • Documentation
• SpeechTool
• SpeechTool with CPP scripts: 1. Install & run SpeechTool, 2. open a .wav file (single channel - no stereo), 3. click CPPV (sustained vowel) or CPPCS (connected speech)
• 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
• Special for JEF

• Personal
  • Family (I need to update this one of these days)
  • Kate's web page

 

• Miscellaneous
  • Things I need in order to write a letter of recommendation (updated 10/10/2016)
  • Class of 2002 (jpg)
  • Class of 2004 (jpg)
  • Photos: Spring Banquet, 2016

*Portrait by an unidentified wisenheimer graduate 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>