Re: Accents and low-pass filtering

Kind regards,

Konstantinos Drossos

On 8 ÎÎÏ 2013, at 9:58 Ï.Î., Etienne Gaudrain <e.p.c.gaudrain@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Aniruddh,

Sounds great!

You can download the video using online services or plugins for you browser. Then it should be either in mp4 or flv format.

To extract the audio, you can use command line tool ffmpeg (will also be able to convert to wav in the process).

The same can be used to convert the video into a format that Matlab will be happy with (could be just a collection of images).

Load the sound in Matlab (wavread), and low pass. Load the video in Matlab (either by making a big matrix with the images, or by using the VideoReader class). You can then probably also just low pass. I guess this will blur any fast motion. For that reason you may want to convert to a different color space first (e.g. rgb2hsl).

Produce either a video or a collection of images with Matlab.

Then recombine audio and video using ffmpeg.

You should find the command lines for ffmpeg by Googling around.

Hope that helps,
-Etienne

On 7 March 2013 21:45, Aniruddh Patel <apatel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to create a version of this short YouTube video (of an
actress doing 21 different accents) in which the audio is low-passed
filtered, so that students can focus on the prosody of the different
accents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

I would also like to create another version in which both the audio and
the video are low pass filtered, so that one sees the slower time-scale
movements of the face while hearing the low-pass filtered voice.

Can anyone suggest how I might do this?

Regards,

Ani Patel

Aniruddh D. Patel
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Tufts University
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02115

a.patel@xxxxxxxxx
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