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Hello everybody!So I'm working on a Linguistics project that currently records users reading words into their personal computers with WAMI. We then process that data with praat and R and send them back graphs and vowel plots and the like.
We're thinking about creating a mobile platform, but are uncertain as to how average cellphone/tablet mics would compare to average laptop mics. (We're a pretty Apple-heavy campus, if that helps!) We're trying to juice as much as we can from the data (formant tracking is pretty vital to the project), so the quality of the audio is important.
I've been trying to find specs, but have not really had any luck. For instance, Apple's spec for most of its products (if it even exists!) is simply "Microphone" -- sometimes, if you're lucky, "Omnidirectional Microphone".
To be fair, I'm not sure what data or terms exactly I should be looking for. (The fifth post here (http://homerecording.com/bbs/equipment-forums/microphones/what-good-microphone-specifications-26414/) has me a little nervous, heh.) This is a pretty new field to me, and if I could just get any sort of pointers, that would be fantastic!
