dear Praat Users and Creators, Let's suppose that I have a system that delivers a set of parameters synchronously with the speech signal; let say labial...
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kyoon@...
Aug 7, 2001 1:52 pm
Could anybody help me write a formula script that I can apply to a spectrum object? Suppose you have a spectrum slice over a fricative segment, what I would...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 8, 2001 1:16 pm
... Although one can indeed use a formula with things like "self+self[col-1]", the Query menu (for a Spectrum object) contains commands like "Get band energy"...
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Alex Enkerli
aenkerli@...
Aug 12, 2001 6:10 am
Paul: Is there a way to run Praat on LinuxPPC? Everybody: Any thoughts on good sound analysis programs for Linux? Thanks!...
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Wim van der Meer
wimmeer@...
Aug 12, 2001 7:50 pm
What a great program Paul has made! I am a musicologist and after fiddling a bit with the parameters in the "to pitch ..." dialog I got exactly what I wanted....
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kyoon@...
Aug 12, 2001 7:50 pm
Could anybody help me write a script to locate the harmonic peaks and valleys of a spectrum object? I need to get the frequency values (and their energy...
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timp@...
Aug 12, 2001 7:50 pm
- sorry for the silliness of my previous post-- I got a little overexcited. I would really appreciate the advice of anyone on how to improve the performance of...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 13, 2001 10:03 am
... The Query submenu for a Spectrum object contains buttons labelled "Get real value in bin..." and "Get imaginary value in bin...". But the algorithm you...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 13, 2001 10:03 am
... neither are they based on a 1200-cents system... But you just multiply by 100, of course. ... they are psychophysical measures of frequency. The Mel scale...
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kyoon@...
Aug 14, 2001 5:51 am
Dear Praat creators and users, How could I convert the energy unit of Pa(scal) to the intensity unit dB for each bin of a spectrum object? There is a query...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 15, 2001 12:01 am
... yes, Praat can work under Linux on the Macintosh, with sound! You ask me for the download page for the source code, and follow the instructions on the...
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Gabriel J.L. Beckers
beckers@...
Aug 15, 2001 9:00 am
... 'SND' is a sound editor for Unix/Linux that is well worth looking into. It is no replacement for Praat, though. (Not that Praat needs replacement!) It is...
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Gareth Walker
gw115@...
Aug 15, 2001 9:25 am
There is also 'Wavesurfer', which does some phonetic analysis (pitch, waveform, spectra etc), and runs on Mac, PC, and Linux. I haven't used it extensively,...
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rachel@...
Aug 16, 2001 8:35 am
Hi all, I have speech data from 7-9 year old children whose loudness I want to measure. I've gotten the max Intensity, but was hoping to collect several...
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Daniel Hirst
daniel.hirst@...
Aug 16, 2001 8:36 am
Rachel, You could use a simple script like this to pick up the local maxima of the intensity curve: (assuming that a sound is selected) ########### To...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 16, 2001 12:50 pm
... No need, though, to do the Intensity-Matrix-Pitch conversion hack. The intensity contour will be rather smooth if you decrease the minimum pitch parameter,...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 17, 2001 9:31 am
... Daniel Hirst's solution has the disadvantage that the time resolution equals the time step in the intensity analysis. Parabolic interpolation improves the...
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Rolf Siepmann
Rolf.Siepmann@...
Aug 24, 2001 11:24 am
Hello, I would like to ask two questions, the first one is about a pitch function and the second one about regular expressions in Praat. Does anyone know, what...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Aug 24, 2001 4:12 pm
... The Spectrum object has values in Pascal/Hertz, not Pascal. Pascal is the unit for air pressure, and appropriate for sound. To compute something in dB, you...
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kyoon@...
Aug 27, 2001 11:03 am
Thanks to those who responded to my earlier messages, I'm in the middle of refining my script on harmonic peak and valley-picking from a spectrum object. When...
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kyoon@...
Aug 27, 2001 11:03 am
Thank you very much for your kind and detailed explanation. One of the things that I'm interested in is the overall sum of the heights of the harmonic peaks,...
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kyoon@...
Aug 27, 2001 11:03 am
Does Praat allow one to do zero padding in spectrum analysis? For example, programs like Multi-speech allow you to choose a 1024- point analysis window (a...
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Julie Lewis
lewisjulieanne94703@...
Aug 31, 2001 1:43 pm
Dear Praat users, I am making pitch measurements from two-person conversations recorded with headset microphones (separating the left and right channels via...
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Paul Boersma
paul.boersma@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:36 am
... This is indeed a possible use for this parameter, although you will also filter out the quiet parts of the main speaker if you do this. ... divide the...
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Alexander L. Francis
afrancis@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:02 am
I'm pretty sure someone's posted something on how to do a script like this, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. I need to write a script that will...
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Sean Madigan
madigans@...
Sep 7, 2001 8:56 pm
Hi! I have recently been trying to synthesize a /ba/ syllable with Praat. I am using the following formants in my formant tier: /b/ f1 200Hz f2 900Hz f3...
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skmiod@...
Sep 11, 2001 8:45 am
Sorry if this topic has been discussed before... Has anyone done anything with Hidden Markov Model algorithms using Praat? Just wondering if someone has...
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Richard Todd (Forensi...
r.todd@...
Sep 11, 2001 2:41 pm
Hi I'm writing to ask if anyone knows/has a script for extracting parameters/vectors that I could then run through an ASR such as the ISIP system. I've...
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Julie Lewis
lewisjulieanne94703@...
Sep 29, 2001 9:11 am
Dear Praat users, I was wondering how the mean absolute slope measure of pitch was calculated, in particular what was being averaged. Is it that a frequency...
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Yisheng Xu
xu18@...
Sep 30, 2001 8:12 am
Dear Praat users: Can you find a method using Praat to get the a-weighted sound level? Thanks, Yisheng Xu...
