{"id":349,"date":"2006-10-09T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-10-09T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T09:04:15","slug":"sonograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Sonograms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago (1989-90 as I remember) Betsy was using a Mac-based sonographic tool to do analysis of pauses and other waveform phenomena in speech. I used it to explore a lot of samples of singers, as a part of the Cross-Cultural Studies in Music course that I was teaching at the time. I ran across those file folders the other day, while sorting through the academic legacy remains in the barn, and was diverted into an hour or so of what-if (paths not taken, that sort of thing). And then this morning I find Mark Liberman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003651.html\">Poem in the Key of What<\/a> posting at Language Log, illustrating some work he&#8217;s done with a new generation of sound analysis software (it&#8217;s FREE too: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.hum.uva.nl\/praat\/\">Praat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speech.kth.se\/wavesurfer\/\">WaveSurfer<\/a>). I&#8217;m tempted to reopen that frontier. For a bit of a teaser, consider this representation of Bessie Smith&#8217;s 1927 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mp3\/chair.mp3\">Send me to the &#8216;lectric chair<\/a>&#8220;:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47445802@N00\/264930507\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/118\/264930507_4f713a5103.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Bessie Smith Electric Chair Blues fragment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47445802@N00\/264930584\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/87\/264930584_87cd71f093.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Bessie Smith Electric Chair Blues fragment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM: I did some experimenting with Praat, and here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mp3\/chair2.mp3\">extract of pitch contour<\/a>. Not sure just what it all means, but it sure is fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago (1989-90 as I remember) Betsy was using a Mac-based sonographic tool to do analysis of pauses and other waveform phenomena in speech. I used it to explore a lot of samples of singers, as a part of the Cross-Cultural Studies in Music course that I was teaching at the time. I ran across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}