Dear list members,
I have two linked questions to ask you:
1) I am looking for existing singing repositories (a cappella solo voice) publicly available on the Internet. Could you please point me to the ones you know? So far, I haven't been able to find any (with Google - I am probably using wrong keywords).
2) If any of you worked on such a repository, what bit depth and sample rate did you use for the audio recordings?
In fact, in the framework of the AIRS project (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing: http://www.airsplace.ca/about ), I am working on the creation of a "best practices" guide for voice recording. One of the main points is, of course, the trade-off between storage space and sound quality and we would like to be sure the recordings are of a high enough quality, in order to properly analyze the data (mostly pitch detection, formants tracking, rhythm, note duration etc). A choice of 48 kHz / 24 bits seems to be a good compromise. Does any of you have comments or advices regarding this choice?
Feel free to contact me offlist if you prefer.
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Coralie
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