Hi Robert
Importantly, I have successfully installed the plugin. A few quick
thoughts now as getting past my bedtime. Will give a more detailed
response soonish.
I initially put it in the Audacity plugin folder under program files
(x86) and it didn't show up. When I put it into the audacity plugins
folder under my appdata it was then available. When assigning a shortcut
it seemed to alternate its name between "report" and "tts", which kept
me on my toes. But after the requisite level of muttering I sorted it out.
I don't find the speech rate or volume offensive and have not given much
thought at this stage as to how I would tweak it, but would probably
increase it a bit.
The plugin does exactly what you advertised. I am astonished that you
can report up to 120dB. To my limited understanding, above 0 is a
no-no. But it reported my levels accurately when compared to Audacity
itself and to the Peak Finder rft. The thing that tool provides is the
location of the peak(s), which can be crucial. It can also be tediously
slow in a large file - have not tried yours on one of those yet.
It is a great concept. I will report further.
Andrew
On 7/02/2017 8:21 PM, Robert Hänggi wrote:
Hello Fellow-listers
I'm working on a plug-in suite that should facilitate working with Audacity.
The goal is to have a collection of self-voicing plug-ins that report
commonly wanted information.
*** works only on Windows ***
The first one announces the peak level of the selection from -120 dB
up to +120 dB.
I'm attaching it along with the needed voice file.
Also available at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/keze2sx5lv90pxg/tts-suite.zip?dl=0
Unzip the two files into the plug-in folder of Audacity.
under "Add/Remove Plug-ins" search for "Report Peak"
It will appear in the Analyze menu if enabled.
I highly recommend that you assign a shortcut to it in order to work
more efficiently with it.
Features:
- self-voicing
- Range from -120.0 dB to +120.0 dB.
- says "less/more than..." if the audio lies outside the range.
- says even numbers (zero after the point) as e.g. -12 dB
- adds one digit if need be, e.g. -76.3 dB
- works with multiple tracks selected
- no need to press OK or something like that
I'd like to know:
- how about the speech rate, too fast/slow?
You can tweak it a bit by opening "tts-peak.ny" in a text editor and
changing the "1.0" in the very last line to something different (e.g.
0.9 will be slower and deeper)
- How about the volume?
It's also adjustable in the last line; it's the -6 which means half volume.
- Do you want a different voice?
I can give you the text that is needed for this and future plug-ins.
Send me the audio file back or I'll explain how it should be done.
- Do you want "Peak" or "Peak Level" spoken as well?
They are included in the voice file and it needs just adding them
after "db" in the plug-in file, e.g. "db" "peak" "level".
- What other self-voicing info do you like to have?
The voice file is already prepared to speak other things.
- numbers up to 1 million (excl.)
- Note names (pitches) including flat sharp and cents.
- RMS and peak level
- bit depth
- Hertz
- stereo, dual mono and mono
Are there other things that come to your mind (e.g. time percent etc.)
Big thanks to those that are going to test it.
Looking forward to your criticism. ;-)
Best
Robert
