Student Thesis Archive

2000s

2001

  • Ludwigsen, Daniel O, “Physical Modeling of the Lips in a Player/Trombone Simulation,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2001).
  • Anderson, Brian, “The Effect of Inharmonic Partials on Pitch of Piano Tones,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, Jul 2001).

2000

  • Thompson, Michael Wayne, “Inclusion of Wave Steepening in a Frequency-Domain Model of Trombone Sound Production ,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 2000).
  • Tait, Jr., Steven L, “A Comparative Study of Various Display Formats of Speech Frequncy Spectra to Aid Lip Readers,” Advisor: William Strong (Honors Thesis, Jun 2000).

1990s

1998

  • Ainsworth (Jr.), Ronald E., “Trombone Tone Sustain Simulation Through Linear Prediction,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, Dec 1998).

1997

  • Hunter, Eric J, “Geometrical Display of Speech Spectra as an Aid to Lipreading ,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1997).

1996

  • Lin, Rong, “Acoustic Study of Acted Emotions in Speech,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1996).

1995

  • Copley, David C, “A Computational and Experimental Study on the Physical Modeling of the Trombone for Music Synthesis,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1995).

1994

  • Jensen, Grant, “A Comparison of Asynchronous and Synchronous Speech Analysis,” Advisor: William Strong (Honors Thesis, Apr 1994).

1992

  • Li, Si Ning, “Simulation of Source to Receiver Transmission in an Enclosure: Steady and Transient Spectra,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1992).
  • Johnson, Mont A., “Simulation of a Simplified Violin Via Computer,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, Apr 1992).

1991

  • Berry, David A, “Isolation and Characterization of Microevents in Speech,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1991).
  • Feng, Ji Lu, “Optimization of Clarinet Toneholes,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1991).

1980s

1989

  • Li, Xiaoping, “Simulation of a Simplified Violin,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1989).

1987

  • Papachristou, Paraskev, “Tone color and spectral spaces for steady tones,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1987).
  • Xu, Yuan Gong, “Influence of top thickness on violin tune,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1987).

1986

  • Sommerfeldt, Scott D, “Simulation of a Player-Clarinet System,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1986).

1984

  • Shirley, Lyle Gordon, “Acoustic Input of Horns: Calculation and Measurement,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1984).

1983

  • Allen, Donald Robert, “A Model for the Synthesis of Natural Sounding Vowels,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Dec 1983).

1980

  • Allen, Donald Robert, “Experiments on the Intelligibility of Low Frequency Speech Codes,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1980).

1970s

1979

  • Stewart, Stephen E, “A Functional Model of a Simplified Clarinet,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1979).

1975

  • Clement, Gary L, “A Study of the Intelligibility of Speech Coded by Linear Prediction Using Various Numbers of Predictor Coefficients,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1975).
  • Keeler, Lynn O., “A Comparison of the Intelligibility of Formant and Predictor Coefficient Coded Speech,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1975).
  • Reeder, Kaye, “A Low-Frequency Formant Speech Code for the Hearing Impaired,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1975).

1974

  • Wheeler, Paul Andrew, “The Homomorphic Filtering Method and Linear Prediction Method of Analysis and Synthesis as Applied to French Horn Tones,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Apr 1974).
  • Christensen, Randall L, “A Comparison of Three Methods of Extracting Resonance Information from Predicator Coefficient Coded Speech,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Jan 1974).

1973

  • Purves, Robert Byron, “An Automatic Method for Computer Recognition for Continuous Speech,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1973).

1972

  • Tien, Chang Ho, “The Tones of Spoken Chinese: A Fundamental Frequency Measurement,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, May 1972).
  • Plitnik, George R., “The Calculation of Input Impedance for Double-Reed Wind Instruments and the Time-Variant Analysis and Synthesis of their Tones, Using Digital Computer Techniques,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1972).

1970

  • Higbee, Glen Allen, “Speech Synthesis by Rule: Use of an Acoustic Domain Approach for the Computer-Generation of Control Parameters for a Parallel Synthesizer,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1970).
  • Cahoon, David Edward, “Frequency-Time Analysis of the Bass Drum Sound,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, May 1970).

1960s

1969

  • Reynolds, James M, “Three Demonstrations Concerning Speech for Use in a Survey Course in Acoustics,” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Aug 1969).
  • Baxter, Brent Scott, “A Self Oscillating Vocal Tract Speech Synthesizer "Windbag",” Advisor: William Strong (Masters Thesis, Jan 1969).