[Clam-devel] last minute [PATCH]es before GSoC "pencils down": GlottalSourceGenerator and some cleanup

[David García Garzón]

Committed.

Abe, I though you had commit access so I was relaxed about the fact your 
patches needed us to commit them. Do you have any other pending patch? Has 
Xavi told you anything about commit access?

David.


On Tuesday 21 August 2007 02:13:19 abe kazemzadeh wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It was great working together this summer and I'm looking forward to more
> CLAM in the future.
> Although I've only met one clam project member in person
> , I hope that will change,
> be it at conferences, vacations, or  otherwise.  Until then, I'll
>  toast to Bennett's pint via email (with
> a coffee for now).
>
> I wanted to send one more patch before the end of the summer of Clam  :)
> (and a few clean-up patches):
>
> GlottalSourceGenerator.patch:
> * Modifies harmonicPeaksGenerator to include jitter and shimmer controls
> * TODO: try more things to make it more human-like
>
> *This would be a very small patch to harmonic peaks generator but I decided
> to create a new
> class and put it in the plugins/speech directory b/c eventually it may be
> necessary to add
> voice source aspects that are not harmonic like noise.  It sounds a bit
> more natural than with
> HarmonicPeaksGenerator, but there is still plenty of room for improvement.
>
> *Jitter and shimmer are slight variations in the pitch and amplitude of
> voice, so the controls I added
> define the maximum variation and then the actual variation is a random
> value within this maximum.
>
> *The attached file,  experimentalVowelSynth_withGlot
> talSourceGenerator.clamnetwork, gives
> an example of this (it's pretty similar to the previous network I sent out,
> but with jitter and
> shimmer controls set to values that sound good).
>
> FormantExtractor__endOfSoCCleanup.patch
> Abe_LPModel_endOfSoCCleanup.patch
> Polynomial_endOfSoCCleanup.patch
> * these clean up some of my sloppiness like superfluous comments, debugging
> output, and unnecessary #includes
>
> Later,
> Abe