Building Psychoacoustic Analysis Software

[Sam Ferguson <samferguson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Auditory List -

We are currently building software that analyses samples of sound or  
music using psychoacoustic and acoustic methods. The program is a  
template which centralises control of various routines for batch  
analysis, followed by appropriate statistical and graphical analysis.  
By using Matlab as the central environment we aim to exploit its  
graphing, statistical, and `soft computing' tools. The software will  
be designed with research in mind.

We are looking for analysis routines that provide descriptive  
parameters about aspects of spoken, sung or played sound primarily.  
Some of the types of descriptive parameters we are interested in  
include:

Psychoacoustic Models (Loudness, Sharpness, Roughness, Fluctuation  
Strength etc.)
Voice/Singing Analysis
Musical Phrase Analysis
Musical Texture Analysis
Beat Tracking  and Tempo Analysis
Vibrato Analysis
Pitch and Pitch Strength
Binaural Spatial Measures

We are hoping that researchers on this list might be interested in  
contributing routines they may have implemented (not necessarily only  
Matlab code) for incorporation in this program. The hope is that once  
the software is relatively bug free it will be freely released, and  
that it may be useful for other researchers. Contributers would  
understandably expect some credit for supplying their software which  
is likely to be achieved through a citation system. References will  
be displayed when each parameter is calculated, so that users are  
reminded who developed the particular routine. The user manual for  
this software may also include (copyright permitting) any papers (or  
perhaps links to papers) associated with any contributed code.

Thanks

Sam Ferguson
Densil Cabrera
Jens Brøsbol

Acoustics Research Laboratory
Faculty of Architecture
The University of Sydney