The Speech Research Laboratory (SRL) is under the direction of Professor David Pisoni. Professor Pisoni is one of the leading figures in the field of speech perception and spoken language processing. Under his direction for almost twenty-five years, the SRL has developed a broad research program on a range of problems dealing with speech perception, spoken word recognition, language comprehension and perceptual development.

The laboratory is equipped with extensive hardware and software for presenting complex acoustic signals to subjects and recording their responses in real-time. Microcomputers are used for perceptual experiments with human observers. There are also extensive computer resources for analyzing acoustic waveforms and generating experimental signals with a variety of speech synthesizers.