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Yin

Mirror of the YIN matlab library matlab by Alain de Cheveigné, redistributed under the terms of the original licence.

The point of entry is the yin function which calls on other functions using the private/ directory sturcture of MATLAB.

Yin uses c source files using the MEX compilation system. Setup is partially covered in the original INSTALL file. In addition there is a setupyin.m script which has been added to make things a little easier.

Original Documentation

Note

The original README was more of a licence, which has been moved to ./LICENCE.

Below is a copy of the original .html, added here for ease.

YIN: fundamental frequency estimator

YIN estimates the fundamental frequency (F0) of an audio signal. Features are:

  • Reliability (based on tests, see reference below).
  • Accuracy (subsample resolution).
  • Wide search range (default is 30 Hz - sr/4).
  • Good temporal resolution.
  • Ease of use.

YIN operates on vectors or files. YIN outputs a structure containing a set of four vectors: F0 vs time, two estimates of aperiodic/total power (one gross estimate, one fine estimate), and a period-smoothed estimate of instantaneous power.

If no output argment is specified, YIN plots F0 as a function of time (in octaves re: 440 Hz), aperiodicity, and power.

In the F0 plot, samples in blue are reckoned reliable (aperiodicity2*threshold).

Type 'help yin' for a description of the parameters. Read the reference below and the code to understand their meaning. In brief:

  • To increase speed: increase 'hop' or 'minf0'.
  • To reduce memory needs: reduce 'bufsize', or increase 'hop' or 'minf0'.
  • To slightly increase reliability: reduce 'hop'.
  • To slightly increase precision: upsample before processing.
  • To improve temporal resolution: increase 'minf0', decrease 'hop'.
  • To process lower F0s: reduce 'minf0'. Higher F0s: upsample and increase 'maxf0'.
  • To avoid subharmonic errors: increase 'thresh'.
  • To avoid harmonic/formant errors: reduce 'thresh'.
  • Make sure that the range [minf0 maxf0] includes the expected f0.

Parameter 'thresh' sets the proportion of aperiodic power that is tolerated within a "periodic" signal. This may vary according to the application.

For speech or musical instruments a value of 0.1 is usually adequate. Singing voice may require a smaller value (as low as 0.001) if a harmonic is reinforced by a sharp formant.

Some signals are inherently ambiguous. For example the response of a high-Q resonator excited by a pulse train may be seen either as a complex tone with an F0 equal to that of the pulse train, or as an amplitude modulated pure tone with an F0 equal to the resonant frequency. Neither is more "correct" than the other. To obtain the result that you expect, you must set the threshold to an appropriate value: small for the fundamental periodicity, large for the resonance periodicity.

YIN is described in: de Cheveigné, A., and Kawahara, H. (2002). "YIN, a fundamental frequency estimator for speech and music," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 1917-1930. (pdf)

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