soundgen (version 2.7.2)

getSurprisal: Get surprisal

Description

Tracks the (un)predictability of spectral changes in a sound over time, returning a continuous contour of "surprisal". This is an attempt to track auditory salience over time - that is, to identify parts of a sound that are likely to involuntarily attract the listeners' attention. The functions returns surprisal proper (`$surprisal`) and its product with increases in loudness (`$surprisalLoudness`). Because getSurprisal() is slow and experimental, it is not called by analyze().

Usage

getSurprisal(
  x,
  samplingRate = NULL,
  scale = NULL,
  from = NULL,
  to = NULL,
  winSurp = 2000,
  audSpec_pars = list(filterType = "butterworth", nFilters = 64, step = 20, yScale =
    "bark"),
  method = c("acf", "np")[1],
  summaryFun = "mean",
  reportEvery = NULL,
  cores = 1,
  plot = TRUE,
  savePlots = NULL,
  osc = c("none", "linear", "dB")[2],
  heights = c(3, 1),
  ylim = NULL,
  contrast = 0.2,
  brightness = 0,
  maxPoints = c(1e+05, 5e+05),
  padWithSilence = TRUE,
  colorTheme = c("bw", "seewave", "heat.colors", "...")[1],
  col = NULL,
  extraContour = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = NULL,
  xaxp = NULL,
  mar = c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2),
  main = NULL,
  grid = NULL,
  width = 900,
  height = 500,
  units = "px",
  res = NA,
  ...
)

Value

Returns a list with $detailed per-frame and $summary per-file results (see analyze for more information). Three measures are reported: loudness (in sone, as per getLoudness), the first derivative of loudness with respect to time (dLoudness),

surprisal (non-negative), and suprisalLoudness (geometric mean of surprisal and dLoudness, treating negative values of dLoudness as zero).

Arguments

x

path to a folder, one or more wav or mp3 files c('file1.wav', 'file2.mp3'), Wave object, numeric vector, or a list of Wave objects or numeric vectors

samplingRate

sampling rate of x (only needed if x is a numeric vector)

scale

maximum possible amplitude of input used for normalization of input vector (only needed if x is a numeric vector)

from, to

if NULL (default), analyzes the whole sound, otherwise from...to (s)

winSurp

surprisal analysis window, ms (Inf = from sound onset to each point)

audSpec_pars

a list of parameters passed to audSpectrogram

method

acf = change in maximum autocorrelation after adding the final point, np = nonlinear prediction (see nonlinPred)

summaryFun

functions used to summarize each acoustic characteristic, eg "c('mean', 'sd')"; user-defined functions are fine (see examples); NAs are omitted automatically for mean/median/sd/min/max/range/sum, otherwise take care of NAs yourself

reportEvery

when processing multiple inputs, report estimated time left every ... iterations (NULL = default, NA = don't report)

cores

number of cores for parallel processing

plot

if TRUE, plots the auditory spectrogram and the suprisalLoudness contour

savePlots

full path to the folder in which to save the plots (NULL = don't save, '' = same folder as audio)

osc

"none" = no oscillogram; "linear" = on the original scale; "dB" = in decibels

heights

a vector of length two specifying the relative height of the spectrogram and the oscillogram (including time axes labels)

ylim

frequency range to plot, kHz (defaults to 0 to Nyquist frequency). NB: still in kHz, even if yScale = bark, mel, or ERB

contrast

a number, recommended range -1 to +1. The spectrogram is raised to the power of exp(3 * contrast). Contrast >0 increases sharpness, <0 decreases sharpness

brightness

how much to "lighten" the image (>0 = lighter, <0 = darker)

maxPoints

the maximum number of "pixels" in the oscillogram (if any) and spectrogram; good for quickly plotting long audio files; defaults to c(1e5, 5e5)

padWithSilence

if TRUE, pads the sound with just enough silence to resolve the edges properly (only the original region is plotted, so the apparent duration doesn't change)

colorTheme

black and white ('bw'), as in seewave package ('seewave'), matlab-type palette ('matlab'), or any palette from palette such as 'heat.colors', 'cm.colors', etc

col

actual colors, eg rev(rainbow(100)) - see ?hcl.colors for colors in base R (overrides colorTheme)

extraContour

a vector of arbitrary length scaled in Hz (regardless of yScale!) that will be plotted over the spectrogram (eg pitch contour); can also be a list with extra graphical parameters such as lwd, col, etc. (see examples)

xlab, ylab, main, mar, xaxp

graphical parameters for plotting

grid

if numeric, adds n = grid dotted lines per kHz

width, height, units, res

graphical parameters for saving plots passed to png

...

other graphical parameters

Details

Algorithm: we start with an auditory spectrogram produced by applying a bank of bandpass filters to the signal, by default with central frequencies equally spaced on the bark scale (see audSpectrogram). For each frequency channel, a sliding window is analyzed to compare the actually observed final value with its expected value. There are many ways to extrapolate / predict time series and thus perform this comparison such as autocorrelation (method = 'acf') or nonlinear prediction (method = 'np'). The resulting per-channel surprisal contours are aggregated by taking their mean weighted by the average amplitude of each frequency channel across the analysis window. Because increases in loudness are known to be important predictors of auditory salience, loudness per frame is also returned, as well as the square root of the product of its derivative and surprisal.

Examples

# A quick example
s = soundgen(nSyl = 2, sylLen = 50, pauseLen = 25, addSilence = 15)
surp = getSurprisal(s, samplingRate = 16000)
surp

if (FALSE) {
# A more meaningful example
sound = soundgen(nSyl = 5, sylLen = 150,
  pauseLen = c(50, 50, 50, 130), pitch = c(200, 150),
  noise = list(time = c(-300, 200), value = -20), plot = TRUE)
# playme(sound)
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000,
  yScale = 'bark', method = 'acf')
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000,
  yScale = 'bark', method = 'np')  # very slow
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000,
  yScale = 'bark', method = 'acf', audSpec_pars = list(
  nFilters = 128, yScale = 'ERB', bandwidth = 1/12))

# short window = amnesia (every event is equally surprising)
getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000, winSurp = 250)
# long window - remembers further into the past, Inf = from the beginning
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000, winSurp = Inf)

# plot "pure" surprisal, without weighting by loudness
spectrogram(sound, 16000, extraContour = surp$detailed$surprisal /
  max(surp$detailed$surprisal, na.rm = TRUE) * 8000)

# NB: surprisalLoudness contour is also log-transformed if yScale = 'log',
# so zeros become NAs
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000, yScale = 'log')

# add bells and whistles
surp = getSurprisal(sound, samplingRate = 16000,
  yScale = 'mel',
  osc = 'dB',  # plot oscillogram in dB
  heights = c(2, 1),  # spectro/osc height ratio
  brightness = -.1,  # reduce brightness
  # colorTheme = 'heat.colors',  # pick color theme...
  col = rev(hcl.colors(30, palette = 'Viridis')),  # ...or specify the colors
  cex.lab = .75, cex.axis = .75,  # text size and other base graphics pars
  ylim = c(0, 5),  # always in kHz
  main = 'Audiogram with surprisal contour', # title
  extraContour = list(col = 'blue', lty = 2, lwd = 2)
  # + axis labels, etc
)

surp = getSurprisal('~/Downloads/temp/', savePlots = '~/Downloads/temp/surp')
surp$summary
}