The file PetersonBarney.tar.Z contains the Peterson and Barney vowel
formant frequency database described below - Tony Robinson (5 Jan 1993).

Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: spiegel@din.bellcore.com (Murray Spiegel)
Subject: Re: Peterson and Barney's data
Organization: Bellcore (Bell Communications Research)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 18:16:12 GMT
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|> Does someone know how I could get the data used by Peterson and Barney
|> in their 1952 JASA paper ('Control methods used in a study of the vowels,'
|> JASA 24, 175-184)? Peterson and Barney measured the frequency and amplitude
|> of F1, F2 and F3 for 10 vowels and 76 speakers. Any information on this
|> point would be very helpful.

I obtained a file documented in Watrous, JASA, vol 89, May 1991 
via anonymous ftp from linc.cis.upenn.edu in directory pub.
It appears to be no longer there, so I've put it up via anonymous ftp 
from thumper.bellcore.com in directory spiegel.

	pb.data.tar.Z  - 18147 bytes

I will leave it there for a couple months.