Tyler Tan Status Report 3/22/2025

This week was an emotional rollercoaster for me. Every problem that I could run into I ran into. To start off, on Wednesday when we met with the singers we could not get recordings since the EGG battery had ran out so we could only get the pitch data from my computer since the microphone adapter is also connected to the EGG. Then, on Thursday, we accidentally charged the EGG for 6 hours but it was turned on the entire time, so no charge was accomplished so we had to cancel our scheduled meeting with the singers. Then, on Friday, with a full EGG charge, I tested it out in the morning and got everything to work except the microphone, except sometime 2 hours after when we went to meet with the singers to record proper data the EGG laryngeal electrode measuring feature was unable to be used. The picture above is the front of the EGG. and in the Electrode Placement laryngeal LED it would only signal too low regardless of where we put the sensors, however the EGG Signal would have a proper display. I have emailed Professor Brancaccio, Professor Helou, and the VoceVista author Bodo Maass questions on how to address this. So far, Bodo is the only one that has responded and he said he is happy to help me troubleshoot during a VoceVista coaching session, which we will have to pay for. It might be useful to use, since I can also learn more efficient ways to transfer VoceVista data out of VoceVista into our software component as well as learn how to troubleshoot an EGG for future issues. I believe I am a little bit behind since this week I really wanted to record a lot of data with the singers to use with the EGG and microphone, and so far we only have my computer microphone data not even the Shura mic that we purchased, but it should be quick to catch back up with a short one to two hour efficient session with the singers. Outside of that, another deliverable I would like to be able to achieve is quick setups of the EGG, since right now it took me over 10 minutes to calibrate and attach everything for the EGG as well as set up Voce Vista, so a little more familiarity with everything. I would also like to start working on storing the EGG data into a more permanent and elegant solution rather than just having excel spreadsheets in a shared folder in Google Drive, and start working on a shared database to use.