soundgen (version 2.3.0)

formant_app: Interactive formant tracker

Description

Starts a shiny app for manually correcting formant measurements. IMPORTANT: please use Firefox on a Linux or Windows PC. A bug in Chrome interferes with correct audio playback; Mac OS is not supported due to an unresolved issue with png transparency. For more tips, see pitch_app and http://cogsci.se/soundgen.html.

Usage

formant_app()

Details

Suggested workflow: load one or several audio files (wav/mp3), preferably not longer than a minute or so. Select a region of interest in the spectrogram - for example, a sustained vowel with clear and relatively steady formants. Double-click within the selection to create a new annotation (you may add a text label if needed). If you are satisfied with the automatically calculated formant frequencies, proceed to the next region of interest. If not, there are 4 ways to adjust them: (1) type in the correct number in one of the formant boxes in the top right corner; (2) click a spectrogram within selection (pick the formant number to adjust by clicking the formant boxes); (3) single-click the spectrum to use the cursor's position, or (4) double-click the spectrum to use the nearest spectral peak. When done with a file, move on to the next one in the queue. Use the orange button to download the results. To continue work, upload the output file from the previous session together with the audio files (you can rename it, but keep the .csv extension). Use hotkeys (eg spacebar to play/stop) and avoid working with very large files.

See Also

pitch_app

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Set up Firefox as default browser either system-wide or just in R.
# For ex., on Linux, run:
options('browser' = '/usr/bin/firefox')  # path to the executable
formant_app()  # runs in Firefox
# }