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Voice meter on desktop (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21928256

Hello girlies and other folk,

my boyfriend is programming a desktop app that displays your current voice input's frequency in Hz over time with a real time graph, similar to the app "voice tools" many of us use for voice training.

I'm trying to garner interest for such a desktop app and would appreciate input about it so I can show him that it's not something only I would want.

I would also be interested in the OS you would be using, since currently it's only on Linux (as we use arch btw).

The image shows what it's currently looking like and the settings window. The entire point is for it to be always on top of everything else so you can always see how you're doing.

And for the other nerds: it's written in Python (making it quite large, about 2GB, he's trying to port it to Rust (based) and make it smaller)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

might also try x-posting to /c/trans_voice_help

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the advice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

of course!

To answer your questions: I use Linux (usually whatever easy distro, sometimes Debian with LXDE, often just Ubuntu - I'm lazy, kill me).

thoughts about the tool itself: it can be helpful to detect pitch but I'm not usually at my desktop when I need a pitch-check, usually it's right before a meeting, in a car before a social interaction, etc. - so I use my phone. It would be nice to have a FOSS alternative to the pitch phone app I use, though.

A tool that charts vowel formants would also be useful, there is less support for that, but there is an issue about users being able to interpret the data accurately.

Also, I worry about how much people focus on pitch, and while that's not the tool's fault, it is worth at least mentioning that pitch is one of the less relevant factors of how a voice is gendered.

Often times a piano is more useful for pitch work than a detector - it's easier for me to generate pitches from a note on a piano than trying cold, and then to chant words at that pitch, and then move gradually from chanting to normal speech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the info o7

The current scope is to use this more as a visual aid and reminder when for example gaming with friends or something and trying to maintain pitch.

It's less about the hard work needed to attain a specific sound with resonance or twang. I personally wanted something that helps reminding me and giving me feedback when I'm just chilling at my puter. Hence the simple pitch detection (which seems to already be technically complicated)

For mobile I'd pretty much recommend going with the existing tools like Voice Tools

Afaik no such app can actually tell you how you sound, so recordings are still vital for progress. I still feel the need to see what pitch I am at though, since sometimes that's rather hard to tell. Which in turn is why we came up with the idea in the first place.

Sorry for rambling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hi fellow arch girlie!

I'm interested I'd be happy to help try and find all the bugs and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

We're not quite there yet but I'll keep that in mind 👀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This would be amazing! I'm an audiophile, and my best equipment is all connected to my PC. I've kind of avoided the voice apps for phones because I'd rather use my normal mic and audio chain. As for OS - Windows. All this said, there's a variety of software that can chart frequency, pitch, etc from an input (mic in this case), BUT I'd love dedicated software for voice training and will be following along with your development 🩷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I mostly use Guix and Debian. An official Guix package would be pretty rad if it could be done, otherwise I might be able to create a patch to add it when I get time if it meets the submission criteria.