LINGUIST List 3.296

Sun 29 Mar 1992

Disc: Software for speech analysis

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1. David C. J. Leip, Re: 3.287 Mac Speech Analysis
2. , Pitch extraction
3. Peter Ladefoged, Re: 3.287 Queries: Pidgins, Mac Speech Analysis Software
4. chris matyear, Re: 3.287 Queries: Pidgins, Mac Speech Analysis Software

Message 1: Re: 3.287 Mac Speech Analysis

There is a speech analysis product for the mac called Mac SpeechLab.
I haven't used it myself since I'm a NeXT user, so I have no comments
regarding the quality of this tool. It is sold by a company called
GW Instruments. Their address is:

35 Medford St.
Somerville
MA 02143

(617) 625-4096
(617) 625-1322 (fax)

- David
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1992 01:12:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Phil Gaines <pgainesu.washington.edu>
> Subject: mac speech analysis software
>
> I may be dreaming, but I would like to get my hands on
> software for the Mac that will generate Fo contours from
> voice input...cheap! I have a
> four-meg Mac Plus with a 64-meg hard disk.
>Anybody have good news for me?
>
> Phil Gaines
> University of Washington

No, Phil Gaines is not dreaming. Signalyze(TM) 2.0 runs on a
MacPlus with 2 Mb of RAM and all Macs above. It does three
types of pitch extraction: by temporal structure analysis, by
FFT-comb, and by autocorrelation. There are also lots of signal
editing tools and input from MacRecorder, Apple mike,
AudioMedia and MacAdios devices. The program is entirely on the
16 bit-standard. The spectrograms adjust to B/W, 16 and 256
colors/grays. Also included: spectra and cepstra, LPC,
statistics, dB measurement, interpolated signal resampling,
transformations, envelopes, zero passages, filtering and a
simple macro facility. The manual is 224 pages, the on-board
contextual Help is in English and French, and the whole
interface is switchable to English, French and German. The
program is about 700 k at the present.
 Is it "cheap"? Well perhaps: Individual US$350, site US$500.
That's as cheap as is commercially realizeable with a small
market, and at any rate much cheaper than any comparable
competition.
 For more info, email 76357.1213COMPUSERVE.COM or FAX/write
to InfoSignal Inc., Western Hemisphere: 3002 Belvidere S.W.,
SEATTLE, WA., 98126, USA, FAX/Answering machine: (206) 935-
1618. Other Countries: C.P. 73, CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland,
FAX: +41 38 33.11.53.

 Eric Keller
 Prof. of Computer Science,
 University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 Author, Signalyze(TM)

Message 3: Re: 3.287 Queries: Pidgins, Mac Speech Analysis Software

Re Mac Software for Pitch analysis:
We have a freeware UCLA-Uppsala analysis package that will provide quite
good pitch curves of MacRecorder or similar speech files. Write to:
Software Manager, Phonetics Lab, Linguistics Dept, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA 90024-1543 for our order form. It's $5 for just this disk -
Peter Ladefoged

Message 4: Re: 3.287 Queries: Pidgins, Mac Speech Analysis Software

To Phil Gaines--

Have you looked at SINGNALYZE by InfoSignal (vrs. 2).
Address: 3002 Belvidere SW, Seattle, WA 98126
Fax/answering mach: (206) 935-1618
E-mail: 76357.1213COMPUSERVE.COM

Impressive demo--cheap at half the price. I

C. Matyear