I noticed that!

Mechanical Snail edited one of his old messages that pinged me and my browser crashed. :-D

Tomorrow I am going to put together a new computer, though.

(This is my um, three computers ago computer, for various computer-breaking-related sadness reasons.)

Well, for various definitions of break... I keep having hard drives fail.

The power supply died in my dev box, I think.

(Not sure why, exactly. There was a power outage for about an hour, and when the power came back, everything else was fine.)

And I use different computers for different things, usually, so ...

Honestly, I don't know how I manage to break so much stuff. At least some of the time it's not my fault, I think...

I wish hard drives didn't die so often.

Have a good night!

Ha

I want to ask a question about how equal in length mora really are.

I don't think I will, though, because I can't seem to write one very well.

This answer touches on the subject: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6966/…

Analyzing sound files is hard.

Hehe!

Apparent loudness of different pitch, like Fletcher-Munson?

That's a difficult problem in part because it depends on the biology of the particular listener, though you can come up with curves which approximate across populations

For example, people with NIHL tend to have a notch around 4kHz, but it could be significantly off from that depending on the actual physical structure of their ear

(Though, that's sort of Fletcher-Munson in reverse--the reason for the notch in the first place is that that's where they're most sensitive. But you have to take that into account to calculate true loudness for that listener)

So, yeah, difficult problem.

As I understand it there's no one fixed methodology for trying to mark where segments begin or end... I don't know a lot about the subject.

I read a warning on Language Log once

"I've avoided two critical questions here: how to divide a phonetic transcription into syllables, and how to align a phonetic transcription with the stream of sound. Depending on the answers, the concept “syllable duration” , applied to the same recording, will yield somewhat different experimental measurements; and therefore numbers and graphs are hard to interpret in the absence of well-defined standards for such annotation, which I haven’t provided.

So take my numbers and graphs as an example of how I claim such experiments are going to come out, and feel free to produce your own –though if we wanted to get serious about this, we should publish our annotation manuals, our audio recordings, and our raw segmentations." from languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=126

It made me think, "I don't know what I'm doing. I probably won't end up with very good results if I start trying to figure this out on my own."

Hehe. It's silly, but I'm afraid to ask. I don't feel like my questions have been very good lately, so I'm trying not to ask something unless I think I've done a better job with it. That's why I said I probably won't ask right now...

I don't want to bug people.

@Flaw In music, there's a similar problem. Where do you define the beginning of a note? If you have a recording, it's probably not at the beginning of the waveform. It might not be the peak of the initial transient. (It might not have a transient.)

But you can perceive where the note begins

It's hard to teach a computer to do the same thing.

I came up with another question. "What's ど近眼? It looks like an emphatic version of 近眼, but it's not in any of my dictionaries." I figured it out, though. I looked up ど :-)

I'm a little curious about ど, though. I don't think 大辞林 and edict quite match up

Huh. That entry in edict got updated recently.

I'm curious about whether it's 関西弁

dic.yahoo.co.jp/…

It sounds like it's saying sense #2 is 関西弁, and I think in ど近眼 it's sense #1, but I'm not totally sure

Edict was recently updated to remove the (ksb:) marker from the entry. (In edict, ksb modified the sense corresponding to sense #1 in 大辞林, not sense #2)

I might turn one or both of those into actual questions some other time.

Oh, neat! Thanks.