Introduction
Requirements
Installation

Introduction

VoiceSauce is a new application which provides automated voice measurements over time from audio recordings. VoiceSauce was developed in Matlab, but now also exists as stand-alone software with slightly reduced capabilities.

VoiceSauce computes many voice measures, including corrections for formant frequencies and bandwidths. These measures include:

• F0
• Formants F1-F4
• H1(*)
• H2(*)
• H4(*)
• A1(*)
• A2(*)
• A3(*)
• H2K(*)
• H5k
• H1(*)-H2(*)
• H2(*)-H4(*)
• H1(*)-A1(*)
• H1(*)-A2(*)
• H1(*)-A3(*)
• H4(*)-H2K(*)
• H2K(*)-H5K
• Energy
• Cepstral Peak Prominence
• Harmonic to Noise Ratios
• Subharmonic to Harmonic Ratio
• Strength of Excitation

where (*) indicates that the harmonic/spectral amplitudes are reported with and without corrections for formant frequencies and bandwidths. New parameters continue to be added.

VoiceSauce outputs values as text, which can then be loaded and analyzed in spreadsheet programs, like Excel. Output can also be generated for and loaded into Emu databases.

VoiceSauce is available free by downloading.

Requirements

VoiceSauce requires Matlab versions 2007 and up. VoiceSauce has been successfully run under Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and Mac (Leopard). Other operating systems may also work but have not been tested. If you are attempting to run VoiceSauce on a system other than Windows or Mac, you may need to install Tcl/Tk first; this can be obtained on ActiveState's website.

Installation

Distribution is currently in two forms: (1) m-code for systems with Matlab, and (2) compiled executables for systems without Matlab. Note that the compiled executables requires the installation of the Matlab Component Runtime.

Currently compiled executables are only available for Windows systems.

VoiceSauce can be downloaded here.

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