This week I primarily focused on collecting and transferring all the data we collected in VoceVista into a useable excel spreadsheet for Melina and Susanna to use. Since our electroglottograph dual channel feature for the microphone and EGG signal is not working, I have to record the audio from a different computer, send it my computer, and manually align it with the EGG signal data. On top of that, I have wrote up a tutorial for new users to follow to use our product, and am now working to implement that into our frontend. That has involved me learning a little bit of PyGUI but it has been relatively straightforward.
So far progress is on track, I want to finish up the tutorial page by this weekend and for next week be able to work through adding an overarching guide on how to read the CQ data as well as what takeaways there are from the data. So far, all we do is output the CQ data and leave the interpretation for the user, and while it is impossible to give hard truths for CQ data I want to write out a guide for general trends to see how you compare to the “industry standard” for opera singers.
Several things that I had to learn in order to complete our project is how to use VoceVista, how to use an electroglottograph, a little bit of excel spreadsheet work, and learn a few different python libraries such as pytesseract or DearPyGUI. The primary learning strategy I used for VoceVista was by using their online video tutorials to get everything initially set up and then emailing the author’s of VoceVista any miscellaneous questions I had afterwards. For the electroglottograph, I primarily relied on the manual that came with it but that led to several issues, but luckily I was able to get in contact with the manufacturers of the electroglottograph that we are using to fully utilize the electroglottograph. With the python libraries, since DearPyGUI is not well documented I primarily asked Susanna questions I had with using it since she had been using it all semester. With pytesseract I primarily looked at other coding examples similar to what I needed and followed their template of how to utilize the library.