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GRAM — The spectrographic
software, Gram, was originally developed by Richard Horne
as an aid in the acoustical analysis of birdsong. At the time
of its development in the late 90s, Garyth Nair was searching
for an affordable spectrography program to enable work with
the technology in his voice lab at Drew. The Chair of the
Music Department, Prof. Norman Lowrey, found the Horne program
on the internet and brought it to Nair's attention. After
working with GRAM for a few weeks, Nair initiated a dialogue
with Mr. Horne and a collaboration began that led to the development
of the program as a voice teaching/research tool. To this
day, it remains the program of choice in our voice studio
and lab. GRAM was included with the book, Voice
– Tradition and Technology (1999), and
a special edition of the program was packaged with Nair's
newer book, The Craft of Singing.xx
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VoceVista
is a sophisticated spectrographic program originally developed
in a DOS version by the Voice Laboratory at the University of
Groningen (Netherlands). It was the first software to combine
scrolling spectrography, power spectrography and EGG (electroglottography)
into one platform. While in Groningen to do joint research with
Groningen's Donald Miller, Nair learned of the program and joined
the development effort. This led to Richard Horne joining the
team as a programmer in order to bring the program into the
Windows environment. The greater flexibility offered there permitted
us to greatly expand VoceVista to make it usable both in the
voice studio and the lab. There are two versions of the program
now available:
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Real-time
— Offered as freeware to permit teachers of singing, students,
and speech and singing language pathologists (especially those
in 3rd world countries) to bring the benefits of this technology
to their students and patients. Armed with this program, a computer
and an inexpensive microphone, this state-of-the-art technology
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Laboratory
— A much more robust version of VoceVista with added
EGG capacity tailored for use in the high level laboratory.
The program allows the researcher to record a segment of speech
or song and then simultaneously view the four analysis types
in sequential millisecond increments. It is available for
sale through the voice lab at Groningen.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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MatchPitch — Developed
by Garyth Nair and executed by Richard Horne to address the
problem of pitch-challenged students at Drew. The program
provides the user with accurate KR (knowledge of results)
and has permitted several of our students to learn to match
pitches to a degree that permitted their participation in
choral activities for the first time in their lives. The program
is available as shareware on our internet site. Other uses
for the program are being developed especially in training
the singer’s passagio (blending the dangerous areas
between vocal registers). xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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SpeechPitch — Developed
by Garyth Nair and Dra. Mara Behlau (Sao Paolo, Brazil) and
executed by Richard Horne. One of the most common, injury-causing
problems encountered in speech language pathology is that
of speaking in a habitual pitch that is either too high or
too low for the acoustics of the patient's voice. The program
allows the clinician to determine the HP (habitual pitch)
of the patient, to determine a corrective pitch area, and
then provide a therapeutic platform to help rehabituate the
patient’s use of the voice. The program is designed
to allow the patient to work at home on his/her own computer
and keeps track of how much, when, and what the patient practices
to enable the clinician to determine progress on follow-up
visits to the clinic. The program is available as shareware
on our internet site.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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LearnPitch
— Developed by Garyth Nair and executed by Richard Horne
to provide an ear training aid in theory and sight reading courses.
It provides the student with practice in both identification
and execution of intervals and has the same tracking engine
as SpeechPitch that enables the teacher to monitor
practice done away from the classroom. The use of this software
has been a performance-boosting aid to the Drew students in
our Sight Reading and Ear Training course since its introduction
in 2002/03. It is available as shareware on our internet site. |
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