Training resources and other references for new lab members

The following resources may be useful for getting up to speed in the lab.

• MATLAB Onramp: If you're new to Matlab or to command line interfaces, MathWorks provides exercises you can do at an interactive Matlab prompt right in your web browser. You'll need a MathWorks account, which you can make for free. From the Matlab Academy site, click "Launch MATLAB Onramp", log into your account, and complete the exercises.
• LinkedIn Learning MATLAB training: Start from DoIT's online technology training and click "Sign in to LinkedIn Learning"; once signed in, you can search for MATLAB courses or go to https://www.linkedin.com/learning/search?entityType=COURSE&keywords=matlab&u=56745513 to access two training tutorials.
• Matlab: a practical introduction to programming and problem solving, by Stormy Attaway
• SMNG Model experiment: KB doc with more info here. Both a template for future Matlab experiments in our lab, and a learning tool for lab members about existing experiments.

• CITI Training: If you haven't done human subjects research before, see the Instructions for Completing CITI Human Participants Research Training.
• HIPAA Training: The Waisman Center requires all employees & affiliates to complete HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) training. This ensures that sensitive & personal information of research subjects and patients are being handled responsibly. To complete this: 

1. Visit the HIPAA Compliance webpage 
2. Scroll down to the heading "HIPAA TRAINING FOR EMPLOYEES, STAFF, AND STUDENTS WITH UW-MADISON NetIDs"
3. Click the link titled 'HIPAA Privacy and Security Training'
4. Complete the Canvas course, and notify the lab manager when you have completed this
5. If you have trouble accessing this, ask the lab manager to contact Emily Rindahl <erindahl@wisc.edu> to obtain your enrollment access

• A Course in Phonetics by Ladefoged and Johnson. Chapters 1 (introduction) and 8 (acoustic phonetics) serve as a good introduction to speech for the purposes of vowel formant tracking.
• Formant tracking
  • How Do We Change Our Mouths to Shape Waves? Formants video by The Ling Space
  • What are formants? from Praat for beginners by Sidney Wood.
  • Evaluation of automatic formant tracking by Nearey et al. Start with slide 6 and look at examples of good and bad tracking.
• Speech Resource Pages by Robert Mannell and Felicity Cox at Macquarie University. In particular:
  • Speech Acoustics Topics, particularly Spectral Analysis of Sound

Technical manuals

Lab software

Grants