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    Software for objective comparison of vocal acoustic features over weeks of audio recording: KLFromRecordingDays

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    Soderstrom, Ken; Alalawi, Ali
    Abstract
    KLFromRecordingDays allows measurement of Kullback–Leibler (KL) distances between 2D probability distributions of vocal acoustic features. Greater KL distance measures reflect increased phonological divergence across the vocalizations compared. The software has been used to compare *.wav file recordings made by Sound Analysis Recorder 2011 of songbird vocalizations pre- and post-drug and surgical manipulations. Recordings from individual animals in *.wav format are first organized into subdirectories by recording day and then segmented into individual syllables uttered and acoustic features of these syllables using Sound Analysis Pro 2011 (SAP). KLFromRecordingDays uses syllable acoustic feature data output by SAP to a MySQL table to generate and compare “template” (typically pre-treatment) and “target” (typically post-treatment) probability distributions. These distributions are a series of virtual 2D plots of the duration of each syllable (as x -axis) to each of 13 other acoustic features measured by SAP for that syllable (as y -axes). Differences between “template” and “target” probability distributions for each acoustic feature are determined by calculating KL distance, a measure of divergence of the target 2D distribution pattern from that of the template. KL distances and the mean KL distance across all acoustic features are calculated for each recording day and output to an Excel spreadsheet. Resulting data for individual subjects may then be pooled across treatment groups and graphically summarized and used for statistical comparisons. Because SAP-generated MySQL files are accessed directly, data limits associated with spreadsheet output are avoided, and the totality of vocal output over weeks may be objectively analyzed all at once. The software has been useful for measuring drug effects on songbird vocalizations and assessing recovery from damage to regions of vocal motor cortex. It may be useful in studies employing other species, and as part of speech therapies tracking progress in producing distinct speech sounds in isolation.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7105
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     Vocal learning; Acoustic analysis; Kullback–Leibler Distance; Phonology 
    Date
    2017-10-09
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    Soderstrom, Ken, & Alalawi, Ali. (October 2017). Software for objective comparison of vocal acoustic features over weeks of audio recording: KLFromRecordingDays. SoftwareX, (271-277. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7105

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    Soderstrom, Ken, and Alalawi, Ali. "Software for objective comparison of vocal acoustic features over weeks of audio recording: KLFromRecordingDays". SoftwareX. . (271-277.), October 2017. August 08, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7105.
    Chicago:
    Soderstrom, Ken and Alalawi, Ali, "Software for objective comparison of vocal acoustic features over weeks of audio recording: KLFromRecordingDays," SoftwareX 6, no. (October 2017), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7105 (accessed August 08, 2022).
    AMA:
    Soderstrom, Ken, Alalawi, Ali. Software for objective comparison of vocal acoustic features over weeks of audio recording: KLFromRecordingDays. SoftwareX. October 2017; 6() 271-277. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7105. Accessed August 08, 2022.
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