[microsound] Speech Analysis Question...

[Greg Pond]

This was posted to the PD list just a few days ago:
http://williambrent.conflations.com/mov/timbreID-vowel.mov

Pure Data can likely accomplish what you are trying to do. I would
check out the examples here: http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials,
especially if you have not tried using it or Max/MSP before. The pd
list archives and the PD forum may also yield more.

best,

Greg




On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Timothy Leonido
<timothy.leonido at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if anyone can recommend an approach to isolating sounds of
> speech, say vowels of a particular quality or certain fricatives. Is there a
> program that can take a small section of a waveform and, using this
> selection as a model,  extract sounds of a similar quality? Ideally,
> reducing the waveform to silence and those selected sounds? (fricatives,
> formants of a certain frequency) I am currently looking at Praat and
> Supercollider, but if anyone can point me in a better direction...
>
> In looking for sounds of speech hesitation or disfluency, someone mentioned
> that I might be able to use supercollider to extract quieter sounds which
> are in proximity to silence... though I'm not sure how this is possible.
> thanks!
>
> tim
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