FDFREQ — Analysis of mean vocal pitch, overtone distributions
Determines the voice sound characteristics, separately for male and
female speakers, in terms of mean vocal pitch (fundamental frequency
F0, F0-amplitude) and intonation (F0-variability, F0-contour, and
overtone distribution). The respective speech parameters are
estimated from a sequence of consecutive spectra computed at a
quartertone resolution over 7 octaves between 64 Hz and 8192 Hz
(cf. program TRANS). The distributions of the above
frequency-related speech parameters within a given population
can be computed and plotted.
Specificationlist: FDFREQ
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R4 CUT 16.000 Default-value
R4 DMIN 4.000 Default-value
I4 FRST 1 Default-value
I4 NSPK 0 Default-value
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
I4 SAVE 0 Default-value
01 CUT Specifies minimal spectral amplitude for formants
02 DMIN Specifies signal attenuation for bandwidth calculations
03 FRST Specifies first spectrum to be used (out of maximal 44)
04 NSPK Specifies number of spectra to be used for F0 estimation
05 PROT Controls output to display/printer
06 PLOT Controls graphic output
07 PMAX Specifies maximum number of plot pages
08 PROZ Specifies global maximum for frequency distributions in [%]
09 LPRT Logical unit number of plot-device
10 SAVE Controls storage of data in databank
11 DEMO Examples that illustrate program function
- CUT = c: Minimum spectral amplitude required for the
estimation of formants (default=16)
- DMIN = d: In cases where the F0-6db-bandwidth cannot be
determined the program looks for a "DMIN"db-bandwidth
(default=4db)
- FRST = e: First spectrum to be used (out of a maximum of 44)
- NSPK = n: Number of spectra to be used for F0 estimation
- PROT = 0: No print output
= 1: Analysis of mean vocal pitch F0 (in Hz)
= 2: Analysis of mean vocal pitch F0 (quartertones)
= 3: Analysis of F0-amplitudes
= 4: Analysis of F0-variability (intonation)
= 5: Analysis of F0-contour
- PLOT = 0: No plot output
= 1: Spectra with markings for formants F0,F1,F2
= 2: F0 distribution (single cases)
= 3: F0-Amplitude distribution (single cases)
= 4: F0 distributions of entire sample (males vs. females)
- 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)
- SAVE = 0: No effect
= 1: Data are to be stored in databank
- DEMO: Spectral analysis of speech recordings
Example
&&START OUTPUT
&&START CSELECT=Normative speech study zurich (study 600/1+2)
STUD=600,ATAG=0,PROT=1,POPU=STUD600,RSET=1
&&START FDFREQ=Analysis of converted bli-tapes (study 600/1+2)
FRST=2,NSPK=32,PROT=1,PLOT=0,SAVE=1
&&START CSELECT=Normative speech study zurich (study 601)
STUD=601,ATAG=0,PROT=1,POPU=STUD601,RSET=1
&&START FDFREQ=Analysis of converted bli-tapes (study 601)
FRST=2,NSPK=32,PROT=1,PLOT=0,SAVE=1
&&START CSELECT=Normative speech study zurich (study 602/1+2+3+7)
STUD=602,ATAG=0,PROT=1,POPU=STUD602,RSET=1
&&START FDFREQ=Analysis of converted bli-tapes (study 602/1+2+3+7)
FRST=2,NSPK=32,PROT=1,PLOT=0,SAVE=1
