For those in need of synthetic fricatives: Matthew Winn (University of Maryland, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences) provides a Praat script which filters out white noise to create fricatives with different parameters. You can control for: center frequency, bandwidth and relative amplitude of three separate spectral peaks, overall duration, and rise and fall times. The script is available at: http://www.mattwinn.com/Fricative_synthesis_script.txt and a commentary at http://www.mattwinn.com/Fricative_synthesis_readme.txt .

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