import_recordings: Import a speech recordings into an Emu database session

In humlab-speech/reindeer: This package extends the capabilities of emuR to work with speech data in a nordic climate

Import a speech recordings into an Emu database session

Description

This function imports speech recordings stored in a directory into session in an Emu database. The new session will be named according to the name the user provides using the targetSessionName argument. A new bundle will be created for every file with the file extension specified in the "mediafileExtension" setting in the database configuration file (usually "wav"). ALternatively, the user may set up sub-directories in the import folder, which will then be used as recording session names.

Usage

import_recordings(
  emuDBhandle,
  dir,
  media_pattern = ".*",
  targetSessionName = "0000",
  downsample.to = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

emuDBhandle	The Emu database handle.
dir	The directory containing speech recordings or session directories.
targetSessionName	The default session name, if not specified using sub-directories in the import folder.
downsample.to	Set the sampling frequency to downsample the input file to before writing to the database. A NULL indicates that the original sampling frequency of the file will be left intact.
verbose	Should additional information and progress bar be displayed to the user?

Details

In order to ensure that the database always contains a mono sound file, the single channel indicated by the speech.channel argument will be extracted and stored in the database.

The function also makes sure that 'OSCI' and 'SPEC' perspectives are defined for the database.

humlab-speech/reindeer documentation built on May 21, 2023, 4:43 p.m.