Subject: Re: Singing repositories available & bit depth/sample rate advices From: Dan Stowell <dan.stowell@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:30:38 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Coralie, Depending on your needs, this might help: http://ccmixter.org/view/media/pells 2,671 acapellas, various types, community-contributed, CC-licensed HTH Dan On 04/03/2011 20:14, Coralie Vincent wrote: > 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Avant d'imprimer ce mail, réfléchissons à l'impact sur l'environnement. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Dan Stowell Postdoctoral Research Assistant Centre for Digital Music Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/people/dans.htm http://www.mcld.co.uk/