Zombie Chant
Every time I teach basic phonetics/phonology, I give students this assignment. It’s a good assignment that walks them through making recordings and TextGrids in Praat and teaches them that sounds are not as discrete as you might think.
But as a funny thing each year, I use a Praat script to take all the audio recordings, edit them so they’re the same length, and then concatenate them. The result is some zombie/cult-sounding chant of this very basic sentence. I think it’s hilarious, so you get to enjoy it too.
| year | students | recording |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 26 | |
| 2019 | 19 | |
| 2024 | 10 | |
| 2025 | 16 | |
| All | 76 |
Anyway, it’s stupid but I love it.