pitch – Tarik Billa

Cepstral Analysis for pitch detection

December 18, 2023 by Tarik

Okay, let’s go through one by one: I’m looking to extract pitches from a sound signal. Although I am not an expert and have had minimal formal training, I think I know the best answer to this problem. I’ve done a lot of searching, reading, and experimenting over the past few years. My consensus is … Read more

Graphing the pitch (frequency) of a sound

September 8, 2023 by Tarik

Frequency (an objective metric) is not the same as pitch (a subjective quantity). In general, pitch detection is a very tricky problem. Assuming you just want to graph the frequency response for now, you have little choice but to use the FFT, as it is THE method to obtain the frequency response of time-domain data. … Read more