The Emu Speech Database System

Version 1.2

Steve Cassidy

Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University

          Sydney
          Australia
          Steve.Cassidy@mq.edu.au
        

Copyright © 1998 by Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre

Table of Contents
I. Introduction
1. History and Acknowledgements
II. The Emu core.
2. Getting Started with Emu
Collecting Speech Data
Writing a Database Template
Using the Database
3. The Emu Graphical Tools
The Emu Labeller
The Emu Query Tool
The Utterance List Editor
4. Database Templates
The Template File
Level Definitions
Label Definitions
Labfile Definitions
Legal Label Definitions
Path Definitions
Track Definitions
Variable Definitions
5. Querying a Database
Simple Queries
Compound Queries
Modifying the Target of a Query
Combining queries
6. File Formats
Speech Data Files
Label File
7. Emu Extensions to Tcl
Tcl Language Overview
The Emu Extensions to Tcl
8. Writing Scripts for Emu
AutoBuild Scripts
The Emu Script Library
9. Simple Signal File Format (SSFF)
Introduction
SSFF Utilities
Using SSFF in C programs
Using SSFF in C++ programs
Implementation of SSFF
10. Emu Resources
Online Resources
III. Emu/Splus
11. The Emu/Splus Core Functions
Splus
Emu/Splus Function Overview
Emu/Xlisp-Stat
12. Generating Graphics with Splus
One dimensional plots
Ellipse plotting
Plotting signal files for a single utterance
Plotting segment data: Multiple plots
Plotting segment data: superimposed plots
13. Spectral Data
Extracting spectral data
Plotting Spectra
Arithmetic Calculations on Spectral Data
14. Statistics and Classification Experiments
Gaussian Classification
Data Reduction
15.
Emu/Splus Functions
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