Intensity Settings

Configuring the intensity contour

Adapted from http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Sound_To_Intensity___.html

Minimum pitch (Hz)
the minimum periodicity frequency in your signal. If you set it too high, you will end up with a pitch-synchronous intensity modulation. If you set it too low, your intensity contour may appear smeared, so you should set it as high as allowed by the signal if you want a sharp contour.
Time step (s)
the time step of the resulting intensity contour. If you set it to zero, the time step is computed as one quarter of the effective window length, i.e. as 0.8 / (minimum_pitch).
Subtract mean
Modify the intensity value at a time point is computed by subtracting the mean pressure around this point, and then applying the Gaussian window.