[PD] suggestions for spectral "weight" anaylsis

[João Pais]

Hi William and all,

I thought there would some relevant things in your library. I'll look into your suggestions later.
I don't have a patch that other people can look at, but I can try to explain the context a bit better:
- I have a sound of ~40s spoken voice. I'm going to split it in fragments (for now 100ms each) and reorder them
- one of the possibilities of reordering the fragments would be to have a "continuous" timbre change in the end. E.g. going from noisy consonants to clean vowels
- for the analysis, I guess a mixture of pitch and harmonicity (don't know yet in which order it should be done) would be adequate

I noticed your objects work in real time. As the analysis is to be done before the performance, I guess I'll either let the sound play throughout to get the analysis data, or then I'll divide the fragments through x analysis patches, to make it run x times faster.

In this case it is spoken voice, but I guess it could by anything else.

Best,

João

> Hi João,
>
> A measure that would give something near 1.0 for white noise and near 0 for a sine wave would be "spectral flatness", which is in the timbreID library. >But if you're looking to see how well a spectrum's partials line up harmonically, you won't find that in timbreID yet. One quick option would be to use >sigmund~ to get the current pitch, then search the spectrum for the amount of energy in bin ranges related to the expected set of harmonics. Compare >that with energy in non-harmonic bins. But then, for things like gongs that sound "pitchy" but have inharmonic spectra, that won't be much help. Depends >a lot on what you're trying to do.
>
> You *might* find specSpread~ useful, which measures how widely or tightly energy is concentrated around the spectrum's center of gravity. It's in units >of Hz though.
>
>
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> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wanted to ask if there are any suggestions for spectral "weight" analysis.
>> With "weight" I mean a factor which would measure the harmonicity of a sound - e.g. white noise being 1, and a sinus/silence 0. Surely it exists a >>propper word for this already, but I don't know one.
>>
>> Is there any external or patch around that does something similar?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> jmmmp
>>
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