Generates a script for extracting pitch, for use with processWithPraat.

This function generates a Praat script fragment which can be passed as the praat.script parameter of processWithPraat, in order to extract pitch information.

praatScriptPitch(
  get.mean = TRUE,
  get.minimum = FALSE,
  get.maximum = FALSE,
  time.step = 0,
  pitch.floor = 60,
  max.number.of.candidates = 15,
  very.accurate = FALSE,
  silence.threshold = 0.03,
  voicing.threshold = 0.5,
  octave.cost = 0.01,
  octave.jump.cost = 0.35,
  voiced.unvoiced.cost = 0.35,
  pitch.ceiling = 500,
  pitch.floor.male = 30,
  voicing.threshold.male = 0.4,
  pitch.ceiling.male = 250,
  gender.attribute = "participant_gender",
  value.for.male = "M",
  sample.points = NULL,
  interpolation = "linear",
  skip.errors = TRUE
)

Arguments

get.mean

Extract the mean pitch for the sample.

get.minimum

Extract the minimum pitch for the sample.

get.maximum

Extract the maximum pitch for the sample.

time.step

Step setting for praat command

pitch.floor

Minimum pitch (Hz) for all speakers, or for female speakers, if pitch.floor.male is also specified.

max.number.of.candidates

Maximum number of candidates setting for praat command

very.accurate

Accuracy setting for praat command

silence.threshold

Silence threshold setting for praat command

voicing.threshold

Voicing threshold (Hz) for all speakers, or for female speakers, if voicing.threshold.male is also specified.

octave.cost

Octave cost setting for praat command

octave.jump.cost

Octave jump cost setting for praat command

voiced.unvoiced.cost

Voiced/unvoiced cost setting for praat command

pitch.ceiling

Maximum pitch (Hz) for all speakers, or for female speakers, if pitch.floor.male is also specified.

pitch.floor.male

Minimum pitch (Hz) for male speakers.

voicing.threshold.male

Voicing threshold (Hz) for male speakers.

pitch.ceiling.male

Maximum pitch (Hz) for male speakers.

gender.attribute

Name of the LaBB-CAT participant attribute that contains the participant's gender - normally this is "participant_gender".

value.for.male

The value that the gender.attribute has when the participant is male.

sample.points

A vector of numbers (0 <= sample.points <= 1) specifying multiple points at which to take the measurement. The default is NULL, meaning no individual measurements will be taken (only the aggregate values identified by get.mean, get.minimum, and get.maximum). A single point at 0.5 means one measurement will be taken halfway through the target interval. If, for example, you wanted eleven measurements evenly spaced throughout the interval, you would specify sample.points as being c(0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0).

interpolation

If sample.points are specified, this is the interpolation to use when getting individual values. Possible values are 'nearest' or 'linear'.

skip.errors

Sometimes, for some segments, Praat fails to create a Pitch object. If skip.errors = TRUE, analysis those segments will be skipped, and corresponding pitch values will be returned as "--undefined--". If skip.errors = FALSE, the error message from Praat will be returned in the Error field, but no pitch measures will be returned for any segments in the same recording.

Value

A script fragment which can be passed as the praat.script parameter of

processWithPraat

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Perform a search
results <- getMatches(labbcat.url, list(segment="I"))

## Get pitch mean, max, and min, and the midpoint of the segment, for each match
pitch <- processWithPraat(
              labbcat.url,
              results$MatchId, results$Target.segment.start, results$Target.segment.end,
              praatScriptPitch(get.mean=TRUE, get.minimum=TRUE, get.maximum=TRUE,
                               sample.points = c(.5)))
}