Met with Prof. Stern multiple times to try resolving the issues we had with our pipeline.
Verification of our results with the Librosa MFCC + FastDTW chain is difficult due to the untransparent nature of the code.
We switched to Matlab to try making a more transparent, verifiable, and well supported pipeline.
Currently we are having trouble creating spectrograms that verify the results that we care about – the warped data should have a similar spectrogram to the reference sample to be warped, with the utterances in the same locations.
Will continue to explore fixes with this pipeline.