Comparing acoustic analyses of speech data collected remotely
Cong Zhang, Kathleen Jepson, Georg Lohfink, Amalia Arvaniti
June 2021 

Face-to-face speech data collection has been next to impossible globally due to COVID-19 restrictions. To address this problem, simultaneous recordings of three repetitions of the cardinal vowels were made using a Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with external microphone (henceforth H6) and compared with two alternatives accessible to potential participants at home: the Zoom meeting application (henceforth Zoom) and two lossless mobile phone applications (Awesome Voice Recorder, and Recorder; henceforth Phone). F0 was tracked accurately by all devices; however, for formant analysis (F1, F2, F3) Phone performed better than Zoom, i.e. more similarly to H6, though data extraction method (VoiceSauce, Praat) also resulted in differences. In addition, Zoom recordings exhibited unexpected drops in intensity. The results suggest that lossless format phone recordings present a viable option for at least some phonetic studies.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005790 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
keywords:	acoustic analysis; recording methods; mobile recording; remote data collection, phonology
previous versions:	v2 [May 2021] v1 [January 2021]
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