Facilities
GULP has a main lab, now located on the first floor of 13 University Gardens, and a recording studio, located in the Department of English Language at 12 University Gardens.
The main lab is used as a research and teaching facility and is home to GULP's postgraduate community. It has a cluster of 10 networked PCs equipped with USB Mix external sound cards, microphones and headphones. The PCs run a range of specialist software as detailed below. There is a range of other recording and playback equipment (e.g. DAT, cassette, video).
The sound studio is a high-specification double-walled booth constructed in 2007 by IAC (http://www.industrialacoustics.com/). It offers a level of sound attenuation comparable to a BBC studio or an audiometry booth. Speakers can be comfortably accommodated in pairs or individually. Recording is normally direct to disk using high-quality Sennheiser cardioid condenser microphones, a Symetrix pre-amplifier, an Edirol AD/DA converter and a PC (located outside the studio to exclude noise). DAT and CD recorders are also available. Most other equipment can be connected into the studio through a feed-through panel.
Acoustic Analysis Software
- PRAAT
- Wavesurfer
- EMU
- NORM
- Transcriber
- Audacity
- Computerized Speech Lab
- Sensimetrics
- Multispeech
- Elan
- Antconc
- Goldvarb
Recording
- Sound Booth (Username for booking studio is 'glasgow.experiment'. Password available on request)
- Portable recorders
Database and Corpora
Statistics Analysis Software
- R
- SPSS
- EXCEL