Facilities

The laboratory consists of two areas: Recording Studio/ Perception Area and the Computing and presentation area.

Recording Studio / Perception Area is a sound treated area which can be used for high quality speech recording and for perception experiments. This area can accommodate up to three people during perception or production experiments.

Stimulus presentation and recording equipment inside the recording studio includes:

A computing and presentation area is available to students, postdocs and faculty for work, meetings and presentations.

This area contains 3 Dell Optiplex 360 computers and 4 Macs for experiment setup, data entry and analyses, sound analyses, and statistical analyses. A ceiling mounted projector and a screen, a PC laptop and speakers are available for presentations.

Software on all computers includes:
MS Office, SuperLabPro (experiment running package with custom made button boxes), Praat (for acoustic analyses), Audobe Audition (for preparing speech stimuli and experiment running), SPSS and R (for statistical analyses).

If you want to work in the lab, obtain the lab user manual, and the instructions about how to reserve the lab for experiments and meetings, contact Rajka Smiljanic at rajka@austin.utexas.edu

Phonetic Laboratory in the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas-Austin has recently been remodeled. Below are some pictures of the lab before and during the remodeling process.