Comparing acoustic analyses of speech data collected remotely

This dataset contains the supporting data for the following article: Zhang, C., Jepson, K.M., Lohfink, G. & Arvaniti, A. (2021). Comparing acoustic analyses of speech data collected remotely. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149 (6), 3910-3916. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0005132 Face-to-face speech data collection has been next to impossible globally as a result of the 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 an 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 of the devices; however, for formant analysis (F1, F2, F3), Phone performed better than Zoom, i.e., more similarly to H6, although the data extraction method (VoiceSauce, Praat) also resulted in differences.