(This part is adapted from Stonham's lecture notes (p.13) that is available at ) increase from 400 to 500Hz) if the pitch contour is too high, you can decrease the maximum value of the pitch range (e.g. If the pitch contour is too low in the spectrogram, you can increase the maximum value of the pitch range (e.g. getting from the previous measuring), you can set the minimum to just under the speaker's lowest F0 and the maximum to just over their highest pitch excursion. If you have a general sense on what the speaker's actual range is (e.g. The fundamental frequency of the voice (pitch) usually ranges from approximately 30–300 Hz, but this varies according to different speakers: typically males’ pitch ranges from 50-180Hzand females from 80-250Hz , so we usually set the pitch range to a reasonable range of 50-400Hz for general usage. Therefore, in order to make the pitch track more visible and better reflect the speaker's voice, you may need to adjust some of the pitch settings via Pitch → Pitch settings (see Figure 1.58). Sometimes you will find that the blue pitch contour jumps up and down, doubling and halving the actual F0, and in many cases, especially where the speaker is creaky, the pitch track will drop out altogether, which is because Praat’s default pitch range is not appropriate for the file you’re analyzing. Improving the pitch contour by adjusting the pitch settings Select the proper command for your task from the top menu: Pitch → Get Pitch/Get Maximum Pitch / Get Minimum PitchĬ.Select the portion of the sound for which you would like the Maximum, Minimum or Average Pitch.Getting Maximum, Minimum, and Average pitch for a section of speech A local pitch value will be displayed in a separate window.ī. Or you can position the cursor in a stable middle part of the blue track and click "Pitch" and then select "Get pitch".At this time, you can place the cursor at the point and read the blue number on the right side of the window. At this point, a blue line will be placed on the spectrogram representing the pitch.Display the pitch track: Pitch → Show pitch.For example, in Chinese, which is a tone language, each syllable or morpheme may have its own pitch. Pitch is a term used to refer to variations in fundamental frequency (F0), which serves as an important acoustic cue for tone, lexical stress, and intonation.
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To return to a broadband spectrogram, you can click "Spectrum"→ "Spectrogram Settings" → Set the Window Length to 0.005 (or the broadband window length of your choosing) → Click OKĪnd then you’ll be back to the default broadband spectrogram.īefore we illustrate how to measure pitch in Praat, let’s discuss what the pitch is and what it used for. If you set the view range roughly as 0-500 Hz for speech in this narrowband spectrogram, the contours of the harmonics will accurately represent the pitch contours of the voice, which can give you a sense of the pitch (F0) contour before using the Praat pitch tracker for more precise measurement. Now, you can see harmonics clearly in this narrowband spectrogram. You can adjust the window length by clicking " Spectrum" → " Spectrogram Settings" → set the " Window Length" to 0.025s (or the narrowband window length of your choosing) → Click OK.
For the window length around 20-30ms (bandwidth: 30-50Hz), the spectrogram is called "narrowband". There is no clear cut boundary between Broadband spectrograms and Narrowband spectrograms, if the window length is around 3-5 ms (bandwidth: 200-300Hz), the resulting spectrogram is called "wideband". The shorter the window length, the larger its bandwidth (Bandwidth = 1.299 / window length).
Praat can provide you with both Broadband spectrogram and Narrowband spectrogram by adjusting the window length. You can adjust the View range by clicking "Spectrum" → "Spectrogram Settings" For music, we may need to focus on the area from 100 to 2,000 Hz. For speech, we normally set the range from 0 to 5,000 or 6,000 Hz, but for examining fricatives, we might need to set it as high as 15,000 Hz. View range decides how much of the spectrum is shown. The most important settings here are the window length and view range. Normally the waveform and spectrogram will be presented automatically if you select one file and click "View and Edit"as Figure 1.50.
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