The interactive design of an F0-related spectral analyser

Ton Wempe
Paul Boersma

March 1, 2003

We present a spectral analysis method that results in formant measurements
that are more independent of the fundamental frequency of the signal than
several other methods, such as fixed-window Fourier analysis, linear prediction,
and interpolated pitch-related Fourier analysis. In order that the reader will
be able to replicate our results, we give Praat scripts for generating
the test signal, as well as for all the analyses. We show that the Praat program
is the appropriate platform for developing, prototyping, testing, debugging,
and optimizing speech analysis methods.

To appear in the Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 3-9, 2003