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tidynorm

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Tools for Tidy Vowel Normalization

github.com/jofrhwld/tidynorm ↗

Vowel normalization for phonetics, three releases deep and all of them maintenance.

phoneticsspeech-analysisnormalizationtidyverser-package
◆Current state
tidynorm applies speaker normalization to acoustic phonetic measurements inside tidyverse pipelines, including DCT-smoothed formant trajectories through reframe_with_dct_smooth(). The visible release history is short and quiet: settable verbosity options, two fixes to the DCT smoother, and two patches chasing dependency changes in RcppArmadillo and checkmate.
◆Where it's heading
What the entries show is a package past its build-out and into upkeep. The only user-facing addition in the window is control over how loudly the functions report themselves, which is the kind of request that arrives once people are running the package over large datasets rather than a handful of speakers. The two DCT smoother fixes are more telling about substance: returning smooths matching each original token's length, and not erroring on rate and acceleration derivatives, both matter for anyone working with formant trajectories rather than single-point measurements.
◆Prediction
Nothing in these notes signals feature work in progress, so the next release is most likely another dependency-tracking patch unless the smoothing functions attract more use.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    Import fix for a checkmate dependency change

    A single-line change to how one checkmate function is imported. No user-visible effect, and the second consecutive release spent tracking a dependency rather than the package's own surface.

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  2. 9mo ago

    Settable verbosity options; DCT smoothing fixes

    Options to control informational messages and warnings arrive, which reads as a response to running the package at scale. The two accompanying fixes matter more analytically: the DCT smoother no longer errors when asked for rate or acceleration, and returns smooths the same length as each original token.

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  3. 10mo ago

    RcppArmadillo compatibility patch

    A one-line entry patching an issue with the compiled-code dependency, with no detail on what broke. Nothing here changes what the package computes.

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