Speech Processing Laboratory Laboratory, University of Silesia in Katowice does research on speech production, speech perception, acoustic analysis, and speech synthesis and resynthesis.

Research projects

National Science Centre Poland grants:

Main investigator:

• Practical course of English phonetics for Poles 0576/B/H03/2010/38  (PI: Janusz Arabski)
  
   
• Acoustic properties of Polish geminate consonants. OPUS 2017/25/B/HS2/02548 (PI: Arkadiusz Rojczyk)
  
   
• Phonetic imitation in a native and non-native language OPUS 2019/35/B/HS2/02767 (PI: Arkadiusz Rojczyk)
  

Investigator:

• Sandhi in second-language speech. OPUS 2012/05/B/HS2/04036 (PI: Geoffrey Schwartz)
• ALOFON Methodology and technology for the polymodal allophonic speech transcription. OPUS 2015/05/B/ST7/02151 (PI: Andrzej Czyżewski)
  
   
• Consonant synchronicity in Polish and English. OPUS 2018/29/B/HS2/00088 (PI: Geoffrey Schwartz)
  
   

We use the following software and hardware:

SOFTWARE

Cubase Pro 9.5

E-Prime 3.0

HARDWARE

Nasalance measurement and feedback system: OroNasal mask, Nasalance Emission Visualization System (NEM), Nasalance Visualization System (NAS), Consonant Visualization System

NeXus-10 biofeedback and neurofeedback system

PREAMPS

Yamaha Steinberg UR44

USBPre2 (Sound Devices)

MICROPHONES

SHURE SM7B

SHURE PGA27-LC

Sennheiser HMD26

Shure Beta 53

Shure BLX14E/W85

MONITORS

YAMAHA HS5