Schedule

Official Project Management Schedule Updates

• IN PROGRESS Backend Testing
  • DOING Pitch analysis testing
  • NOT STARTED CQ change analysis testing
• CANCELLED Streamline Voce Vista
• IN PROGRESS Inform about Change in CQ

Testing Pitch Analysis

We recently got a new interface for the Shure microphone which now allows us to record clear audio. Due to illness on the team, uploading the data and recording from Voce Vista was delayed, but became available today, so this upcoming week will focus on that.

Streamlining Voce Vista

We had previously thought that a command line was available to start the Voce Vista app, as it was mentioned in the documentation, but tech support confirmed that this functionality was deprecated. As a result this task has been cancelled. This means the general user flow would be to follow instruction on the recording page to open and utilize Voce Vista instead of pressing a record button on our app directly. There would also be instructions to export data. This process could be facilitated by instructing the user to use 1-2 keyboard shortcuts.

Inform about changes to CQ

Tyler and I are brainstorming what it functionally means to inform about changes in CQ. At the very minimum, our app graphs CQ average per pitch over time, which is being handled by Susanna in the frontend. What Tyler and I are thinking about, is what additional information about CQ changes over time could be provided. We want to provide useful information that is beyond what a user could simply infer from just looking at the original graph. There are two areas I could see additional analysis come in:

1. More analysis (specifics currently undetermined) is added to CQ changes over time for the warm-up.

2. A CQ analysis is added to the repertoire recording. Currently we plan to simply list the measured CQ on top of the audio signal something like this:

Perhaps by making use of DPG and our pitch analysis algorithm, we can graph the average CQ for each pitch detected in the repertoire. Maybe we could also show them the difference between a CQ average for a pitch in the warm-up versus the repertoire. The main question here is how this would be useful for the user. Would they be informed enough to make a reasonable decision on vocal technique based on this additional analysis? Would the resulting decision have negative consequences?