<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Verdana
}
--></style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
there's something (which is free) called praat, which is billed as 'doing phonetics by computer':<BR>
<BR>
<A href="http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/">http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/</A><BR> <BR>> From: hellomynameisphil+mcrsnd@gmail.com<BR>> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:13 -0800<BR>> To: microsound@microsound.org<BR>> Subject: Re: [microsound] Speech Analysis Question...<BR>> <BR>> fscape has a utility that can split a sound into chunks of<BR>> user-defined length, analyze and compare the chunks and then arrange<BR>> the chunks according to their similarity in a certain regard, for<BR>> example, amplitude or noisiness. It may not do exactly what you want<BR>> it to do, but still might be useful to try or to generate ideas.<BR>> That's what i can think of off the top of my head.<BR>> <BR>> ~pt<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Greg Pond <gregpond@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> > This was posted to the PD list just a few days ago:<BR>> > http://williambrent.conflations.com/mov/timbreID-vowel.mov<BR>> ><BR>> > Pure Data can likely accomplish what you are trying to do. I would<BR>> > check out the examples here: http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials,<BR>> > especially if you have not tried using it or Max/MSP before. The pd<BR>> > list archives and the PD forum may also yield more.<BR>> ><BR>> > best,<BR>> ><BR>> > Greg<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Timothy Leonido<BR>> > <timothy.leonido@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> >> Hello,<BR>> >><BR>> >> I am wondering if anyone can recommend an approach to isolating sounds of<BR>> >> speech, say vowels of a particular quality or certain fricatives. Is there a<BR>> >> program that can take a small section of a waveform and, using this<BR>> >> selection as a model, extract sounds of a similar quality? Ideally,<BR>> >> reducing the waveform to silence and those selected sounds? (fricatives,<BR>> >> formants of a certain frequency) I am currently looking at Praat and<BR>> >> Supercollider, but if anyone can point me in a better direction...<BR>> >><BR>> >> In looking for sounds of speech hesitation or disfluency, someone mentioned<BR>> >> that I might be able to use supercollider to extract quieter sounds which<BR>> >> are in proximity to silence... though I'm not sure how this is possible.<BR>> >> thanks!<BR>> >><BR>> >> tim<BR>> >> _______________________________________________<BR>> >> microsound mailing list<BR>> >> microsound@microsound.org<BR>> >> http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<BR>> >><BR>> >><BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > microsound mailing list<BR>> > microsound@microsound.org<BR>> > http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> "'Experimental' means the seats are full at the start and empty before<BR>> the performance is over."<BR>> <BR>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>> ~ Phil Thomson<BR>> ~ http://philthomson.ca/<BR>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> microsound mailing list<BR>> microsound@microsound.org<BR>> http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<BR> </body>
</html>