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Sounds of the World's Animals  - http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html  How animal sounds are represented in various languages.  Magical Letter Page  - http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/  Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound.  Phonological Atlas of North America  - http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html  Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.  The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary  - http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict  Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.  Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide  - http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/joerg/worldwide/lingphon.html  Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics.  Contrasted Phonology of English and Portuguese Vowels  - http://www.sk.com.br/sk-voga.html  English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined.  Speech Accent Archive  - http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/  Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided.  Vowels and Consonants  - http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/  Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]  Acoustics of the vowel  - http://www.unizh.ch/neurol/psychologie/associates/maurer/vowels/index.htm  Experiments concerning the physical characteristics of vowels: formants and pitches (F0), formant pattern ambiguity, formant number alteration. Important for all sciences related to speech, acoutsic phonetics, speech therapy and speech recognition.  Virtual Language Laboratory  - http://www.fonetiks.org/  Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.  Speech Internet Dictionary  - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm  Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics  Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training  - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/shl9/ashby/ma.htm  Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.  Auditory scales of frequency representation  - http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/bark.htm  Overview of conversion equations and suggestions as to when it is appropriate to use Hz, semi-tones, mel, bark, and ERB.  The Kiel Intonation Modell (KIM)  - http://www.ipds.uni-kiel.de/forschung/kim.de.html  Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech."  Vowel Charts  - http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/hyfl/projektit/vokaalikartat_eng.html  Acoustic vowel charts of various languages [by Antti Iivonen, University of Helsinki Department of Phonetics]  The Rhythmic Speech Museum  - http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/home1bob.html  Concerns rhythm in speech.  Four Tones and Downtrend  - http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/downtrend/downtrend.html  Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.  Linguistic Annotation  - http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/  Tools and formats for speech and text annotation  Prosody on the Web  - http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm  Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch.  Studying Phonetics on the Net  - http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html  List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.  Speech Web Sites  - http://www.indiana.edu/~acoustic/spsites.html  Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.  Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency  - http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Stibbard-Intonation/  Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]  The SpeechDat Project  - http://speechdat.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/SpeechDat.html  Database of recordings of speech in various languages.  Rutgers Optimality Archive  - http://roa.rutgers.edu/  Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.  Spoken Language Corpus  - http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00allwoodetal-e.htm  Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]  Socrates  - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/cal-top.htm  Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.  Talking Heads  - http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/HEADS/contents.html  Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.  How to Pronounce "Ghoti"  - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/phono.html  Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".  Infography about Phonology  - http://www.infography.com/content/365214404820.html  List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.  English Conversational Grunts  - http://nigelward.com/egrunts/  Contains speech samples illustrating the phonetic diversity of non-lexical items in conversation, such as uh-huh, mm-hm, nn-hnn, nyeah, m-kay, together with discussion of their pragmatics.  Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish  - http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/  Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English.  Anatomy of the vocal tract  - http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec1/anatomy.htm  Diagram and descriptions of the places of articulation.