Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research

Joshua Penney; Ben Davies; Felicity Cox

Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research

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Abstract

This paper introduces a generic smartphone application designed for collecting speech data remotely: Appen Research. Data collected from 24 female Australian English-speaking participants using the smartphone application were compared to data collected from the same participants with laboratory-based equipment. F1 and F2 values were extracted from the midpoints of the 11 stressed monophthongs of Australian English. While some non-low vowels showed slight raising of F1 values in the data recorded with the application, overall the results suggest that recordings collected with the smartphone application are generally comparable to recordings made in a studio for the purposes of analysing vowel formants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Editors	Rosey Billington
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Pages	181-185
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (18th : 2022) - Canberra, Australia Duration: 13 Dec 2022 → 16 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
ISSN (Electronic)	2207-1296

Conference

Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (18th : 2022)
Abbreviated title	SST-2022
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Canberra
Period	13/12/22 → 16/12/22

Keywords

remote data collection
smartphones
vowels
Australian English
monophthongs
recording methods

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Penney, J., Davies, B., & Cox, F. (2022). Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. In R. Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 181-185). (Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). https://sst2022.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/penney-et-al-2022-assessing-the-validity-of-remote-recordings-captured-with-a-generic-smartphone-application-designed-for-speech-research.pdf

Penney, Joshua ; Davies, Ben ; Cox, Felicity. / Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. editor / Rosey Billington. Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2022. pp. 181-185 (Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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Penney, J , Davies, B & Cox, F 2022, Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. in R Billington (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), Canberra, pp. 181-185, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (18th : 2022), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 13/12/22. <https://sst2022.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/penney-et-al-2022-assessing-the-validity-of-remote-recordings-captured-with-a-generic-smartphone-application-designed-for-speech-research.pdf>

Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. / Penney, Joshua ; Davies, Ben ; Cox, Felicity.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. ed. / Rosey Billington. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2022. p. 181-185 (Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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Penney J , Davies B , Cox F. Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. In Billington R, editor, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). 2022. p. 181-185. (Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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