Re: [Espeak-general] espeakedit

[Jonathan D. <jo...@js...>]

On 07 Jul, Gilles Casse <gc...@or...> wrote:

> I am try to retrieve the formants of a "i" french sound using
> espeakedit 1.27 under Linux. 

I'm not sure what's wrong.
Your analysis in praat seems OK, because I can load your spectrum.dat
file into espeakedit and get the correct results which match your
original WAV file.

Here is a screenshot of your spectrum.dat in espeakedit.
  http://espeak.sf.net/test2/i_fr.png

The formant values in the table on the left are just default values.  
The formant frequencies are:
 f1  264
 f2  2280
 f3  3460

This is slightly "closer" than eSpeak's standard "i" vowel.
The higher formants are considerably different. That may be partly
because it's from a different speaker.

Here's a vowel file which I have made from your spectrum.dat:
  http://espeak.sf.net/test2/i_fr

Do you get the correct formant values when you open it into espeakedit?

You'll probably need to adjust the heights of formant peaks so that the
tone matches other vowels, otherwise the "i" sound may be a noticeable
mis-match when you speak text.

So, it seems that something is wrong when you load the spectrum.dat
file into espeakedit.  But the spectrum.dat file is OK.