I need a tool for a computer science project.  I intend recording
utterances and need to analyse them. The main aspect I am interested
in is pitch(fundamental frequency) as I am looking at prosody.
I need something cheap/free, easy to use, that runs on Windows and
which can handle wav/mp3 file formats. I guess being able to annotate
the trace in some way might be helpful for my report too.
A quick internet search revealed the following possibilities..
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm 
http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/speechanalyzer.htm
http://www.mpex.net/en/software/details/cooledit.html#plus
(CoolEdit2000)
http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/ (Audition tryout)

I take it a dedicated speech analysis tool would be better than
something like Adobe Audition?

Can anyone recommend a product? Also is it OK just to look at a pitch
graph or would I need to look at the data from another perspective too
in order to understand the prosody?

Thanks
Steve

Praat (www.praat.org) will almost certainly do what you want, and a
whole lot more besides. It's free, available for several operating
systems, and you can do all sorts of speech analysis (pitch,
intensity, formants, fft etc), as well as manipulation, resynthesis,
segmentation, batch processing...

There's also a forum for questions, bugs etc.

Howard

woodcocs@hotmail.com (steve) wrote in message news:<c9619c60.0405061610.70a36ea1@posting.google.com>...
> I need a tool for a computer science project.  I intend recording
> utterances and need to analyse them. The main aspect I am interested
> in is pitch(fundamental frequency) as I am looking at prosody.
> I need something cheap/free, easy to use, that runs on Windows and
> which can handle wav/mp3 file formats. I guess being able to annotate
> the trace in some way might be helpful for my report too.
> A quick internet search revealed the following possibilities..
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm 
> http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/speechanalyzer.htm
> http://www.mpex.net/en/software/details/cooledit.html#plus
> (CoolEdit2000)
> http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/ (Audition tryout)
> 
> I take it a dedicated speech analysis tool would be better than
> something like Adobe Audition?
> 
> Can anyone recommend a product? Also is it OK just to look at a pitch
> graph or would I need to look at the data from another perspective too
> in order to understand the prosody?
> 
> Thanks
> Steve