Phones & Phonemes 2025-04-09	Dieter Maurer, Prof. emerit. Dr. University of Zurich, Department of Computational Linguistics Guest, Phonetic and Speech Sciences
	Home Research summary News/Check online Publications Contact	Introduction I am a professor emeritus and currently academic guest at the Department of Computational Linguistics (Phonetic and Speech Sciences), University of Zurich. My main scientific interest is focused on the question of the fundamental syntactic form character of vocal and graphic expressions. My team, my colleagues and I have published our work in numerous articles and books on the matter and I am the leading author of the associated extensive sound and picture archives, which are accessible online. This website concerns the work that my team, my colleagues and I have done on vowel and voice quality. Research on vowel and voice quality Questions : What "physics" is the human voice subject to? How are the perceived sound qualities and identities interrelated to the physical properties? What do these interrelations tell us about the voice and speech, both in everyday life and in the performing arts? Interest : Relationship between the basic perceptual characteristics of the voice when speaking and it observable physical properties. Motivation : Lack of a phenomenological description documenting the possible extent of variation in vocal utterances. Actual Focus : Perceptual and acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds, vowel qualities and voice qualities, including the comparison of untrained voices with trained stage voices Large-scale vowel sound database Software tools for the acoustic analysis and (re-)synthesis of voiced speech sounds Research summary : For the research summary, see the corresponding menu item. Keywords : phonetics, vowel, voice, speech, perception, acoustics, formant, spectral shape, sound archives, software tools for the analysis and synthesis of voiced speech sounds Contact Dieter Maurer, Prof. emerit. Dr. University of Zurich Department of Computational Linguistics (Guest; Phonetic and Speech Sciences) Andreasstrasse 15, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Email: dieter.maurer@uzh.ch