The Long‐time average (100 sec) power spectral densities of speech recorded with a close‐talking microphone are presented for 7 male talkers and 5 female talkers. The average lip to‐microphone distance was approximately58 in.and a breath shield was used. These data were obtained with an analyzer counting of a bank of 54 contiguous Gaussian filters whose scanned output was written on magnetic tape for subsequent computer processing. The processing program obtained the mean‐square amplitude in each filter band and converted it to decibels, with appropriate corrections for filter bandwidth.