PAUSES — Analysis of pauses, utterances, loudness and dynamics

Determines the distributions of speech parameters, such as duration of pauses and utterances, energy and dynamics, or mean vocal pitch, in a speech recording, or in a set of recordings. Speech parameters can be analysed within individuals or across individuals for a prespecified experimental condition. All parameter distributions can be visualized through bar charts.

            Specificationlist:      PAUSES
            ------------------------------
            I4 PROT                      0  Default-value
            I4 PLOT                      0  Default-value
            I4 PMAX                      0  Default-value
            I4 PROZ                      0  Default-value
            I4 LPRT                      6  Default-value
 
            01 PROT Controls output to display/printer
            02 PLOT Controls graphic output
            03 PMAX Specifies maximum number of plot pages
            04 PROZ Specifies global maximum for frequency distributions in [%]
            05 LPRT Logical unit number of plot-device
            06 DEMO Examples that illustrate program function
 
            - PROT = 0: Basic statistics
                   = 1: Analysis of the parameter "duration of pauses"
                   = 2: Analysis of the parameter "duration of utterances"
                   = 3: Analysis of the parameter "energy/sec"
                   = 4: Analysis of the parameter "energy/syllable"
                   = 5: Analysis of the parameter "pauses per second"
                   = 6: Analysis of the parameter "mean vocal pitch"
                   = 7: Analysis of the parameter "F0 amplitude"
                   = 8: Analysis of the parameter "F0-6db bandwidth"
                   = 9: Analysis of the parameter "F0 contour"
 
            - PLOT = 0: No plot output
                   = 1: Distribution of the parameter "duration of pauses"
                   = 2: Distribution of the parameter "duration of utterances"
                   = 3: Distribution of the parameter "energy/sec"
                   = 4: Distribution of the parameter "energy/syllable"
                   = 5: Distribution of the parameter "pauses per second"
                   = 6: Distribution of the parameter "mean vocal pitch"
                   = 7: Distribution of the parameter "F0 amlitude"
                   = 8: Distribution of the parameter "F0-6db bandwidth"
                   = 9: Distribution of the parameter "F0 contour"
                   =10: Systematic group comparisons
 
            - PMAX = q: Maximum number of plot pages
                   = 0: Unlimited number
 
            - PROZ = p: Global maximum for frequency distributions in [%]
                   = 0: Will be optimized for each individual plot
 
            - LPRT = q: Logical unit number of plot-device (standard=6;
                        valid numbers are 46-96)
 
 
            - DEMO: Analysis of pauses and utterances
 
           

Example

 
            &&START OUTPUT
            &&START CSELECT=Normative speech study zurich: ages 18-25 (study 600)
             STUD=600,ATAG=1,STAT=2,AMIN=18,AMAX=25,PROT=1,RSET=1
             POPU=AGE18-25
              ?
            &&START CSELECT=Normative speech study zurich: ages 26-35 (study 600)
             AMIN=26,AMAX=35,RSET=0
             POPU=AGE26-35
              ?
            &&START PAUSES=Analysis of converted bli-tapes (stud600)
             PROT=1,PLOT=10,LPRT=63,PMAX=200