"Java Speech Demos"

Supervised by M.Cooke

Abstract

Effective teaching of speech and hearing principles is hampered by the multi-disciplinary nature of the field. Encouraging students to explore these principles for themselves is to be encouraged and computer-based demos are an excellent way of doing this. The combination of audio and visual stimuli and the ability to interact with parameters and see their effects in real-time provide a service which cannot easily be provided in the classroom.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield has produced a suite of demos for just this purpose, written in MATLAB. This project is an investigation into the feasibility of implementing a similar set of demos in Java. The study is built around the production of a framework to aid the developer of these demonstrations. Java's API is designed to be more flexible than that of MATLAB, but as a result of this development can often be much more time-consuming. The production of a framework for this specific purpose should speed up that development process.