The UCLA Phonetics Lab no longer distributes any software
by mail or otherwise. The following are available free for downloading:
UCLA Phonetic Data (formerly
Sounds of the World’s languages): Material illustrating
the sounds of over 100 languages that have been investigated at UCLA,
with an index of sounds by their phonetic characteristics, and an index
of languages. Essentially the same as the CD included with the 5th
edition of Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics. Phonetic Data
PlotFormants for
Mac or for PC: see our Acoustic
Facilities page.
UPSID-PC. The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database.
Data on the phonological systems of 451 languages, with programs
to access it, by Ian Maddieson and Kristin Precoda. This is an elderly
DOS program (and thus Windows only), neither of whose developers are
still at UCLA, and no support is offered. Available to download as a single
zip file (and install and run
on your own computer).
A web interface by Henning Reetz that provides several ways to view
and search the information in UPSID, and which does not require you to have
UPSID on your own computer, is here. (Other
versions/resources may or may not be available elsewhere, e.g. Prolog
interface.)
Note also:
UCLA Phonetics Lab Language
Archive: This Phonetics Lab site, for the NSF-funded archiving
project begun by Peter Ladefoged and now directed by Russ Schuh, makes available
archival sound files from many languages, but not arranged as teaching
materials.
PCQuirerX: Download
a free "lite" version for recording and waveform editing, but not analysis.
scripts
for perception experiments in Matlab
Last updated August 2008 by Pat Keating