soundgen (version 1.5.0)

getPitchCep: Cepstral pitch tracker

Description

Internal soundgen function.

Usage

getPitchCep(frame, cepZp, samplingRate, pitchFloor, pitchCeiling, cepThres,
  cepSmooth, nCands)

Arguments

frame

the real part of the spectrum of a frame, as returned by fft

cepZp

zero-padding of the spectrum used for cepstral pitch detection (final length of spectrum after zero-padding in points, e.g. 2 ^ 13)

samplingRate

sampling rate (Hz)

pitchFloor

absolute bounds for pitch candidates (Hz)

pitchCeiling

absolute bounds for pitch candidates (Hz)

cepThres

(0 to 1) separate voicing thresholds for detecting pitch candidates with three different methods: autocorrelation, cepstrum, and BaNa algorithm (see Details). Note that HNR is calculated even for unvoiced frames.

cepSmooth

the width of smoothing interval (Hz) for finding peaks in the cepstrum

nCands

maximum number of pitch candidates per method (except for dom, which returns at most one candidate per frame), normally 1...4

Value

Returns either NULL or a dataframe of pitch candidates.

Details

Attempts to find F0 of a frame by looking for peaks in the cepstrum. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/matlab/lect10.html