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Emalyse

Articulograph
AG100
Evaluation Program 

Contents

Contents

The Emalyse Program

With the Emalyse program you are able to visualize, analyze and document measurement data acquired by the Articulograph AG100. The Articulograph AG100 operating program Art.exe divides an investigation into a sequence of sweeps. A coherent record is named a "sweep".

The Emalyse program acts on one sweep at a time and allows you to switch to any other sweep of the same investigation.

Visualize

The Emalyse program offers a fixed set of windows and you can add any number (limited by your Windows environment) of time windows.

Fig. 1: The standard set of Emalyse windows. The size and position of each window can be modified as necessary.

The fixed set of windows consists of:

• X/Y display with a selectable line marking the cursor position (tongue shape).
• acoustic signal window
• magnified acoustic window - shows the detailed sound signal around the current cursor position
• data window - shows the numerical values at the current cursor position
• protocol window to insert numerical values at the current cursor position and type in comments.

Fig. 2: Example of a set of additional curve windows.

In the additional time windows you can select any number of functions to be displayed over time.

The following functions are available for each channel:

• x position over time
• y position over time
• tilt factor over time
• x velocity over time
• y velocity over time

Fig. 3: The same as drawing 2, with the "hide border" option active.

When creating a new window, you can select which of these functions is displayed. You can add or remove functions at any time.

When the main cursor is moved, it affects all windows synchronously.

With the mouse, you can move a cursor along the time-axis. The cursor moves simultaneously inside all curve windows and in the acoustic window.

In the XY-presentation the simultaneous data-points are interconnected with lines.

In the XY window, the shape of the tongue follows the cursor movement.

In the magnified acoustic window, the cursor stays in the middle and the signal curve runs through the window according to the cursor movement.

In the data window, the numerical values change to the values at the actual Cursor position .

Any movement curves (trajectories) can be superimposed as reference-contours that stay resident for all sweeps.

Inside all curve windows, you can define labeled markers. These markers become valid inside all curve windows and in the acoustic window. A special pair of marker defines a segment.

Fig. 4: Each vowel is marked as a segment. The "marker characteristics" Dialog shows detailed information on each marker. For easy modification of the marker location, use the shortcuts.

With a "play" function, you can animate the recorded movements. The cursors in all windows move simultaneously and the sound is heard. This can be done for a selected period:

-the whole sweep

-a segment

-a small time period before the cursor.

-a small time period behind the cursor.

With the help of the cursor and all visual information inside the large number of Emalyse windows, you can find striking time points. The note down function allows you to record numeric information of the data at the cursor time point.

Fig. 5: The "note down format" option makes the data output compatible with general data base and spreadsheet programs.

The "Note down" command writes 1,3 or 5 lines to the protocol file. Each line contains all information of one measured position .

To plot curves, the contents of a window can be exported into a data exchange file *.dxf file. This file type is an AutoCad format and can be imported by general windows programs like Word.

Fig. 6: A plot from the X/Y window with the "DXF-Out view" command. This graphic was imported into a Microsoft Word document.

Fig. 7: The Y-position and Y-velocity of the sweep "auuu".

How to operate the Emalyse program

The listed data files are part of the Emalyse program. Copy the file Emalyse.ini into the Window directory and the remaining files into a new directory on your hard disk:

EMALYSE EXE 272128 26.10.95 13:34

EMALYSE HLP 49620 19.10.95 19:53

EMALYSE INI 43 16.10.95 14:27

BLOCKS DXF 27 23.05.95 16:37

HEADER DXF 55 23.05.95 16:32

TABLES DXF 285 23.05.95 16:37

BWCC DLL 164928 07.09.94 17:33

BALKEN DLL 7936 25.01.93 0:10

Installing the Emalyse.exe

To create the program symbol (icon) for the Emalyse program in the current window of the program manager, select the program manager functions in the following order:

Data New Program Search File < select Emalyse.exe > OK

The symbol is then included in the Program-Manager and the Emalyse program can be started by clicking on the new program symbol and pressing the Return button.

To create the program symbol (icon) for the Emalyse program in the current window of the program manager, select the program manager functions in the following order:

Data New Program Search File < select Emalyse.hlp > OK

EMALYSE.HLP

The "Help File" contains the on-line help information. It is an executable file and the Emalyse program switches to it, when the "?" is activated, or when a "Help" button is clicked.

To create the program symbol (icon) for the Emalyse program in the current window of the program manager, select the program manager functions in the following order:

Data New Program Search File < select Emalyse.hlp > OK

EMALYSE.INI

The contents of this file is:

[Desktop]

DSFile=default.dsk

After the next use of the Emalyse program, the name and the complete path of the *.dsk file are written into the emalyse.ini file. This allows the Emalyse program to find the latest used Desktop file and to re install the latest set-up.

BWCC.dll

Dynamic Link Library for Borland - Style Windows elements

Balken.dll

Dynamic Link Library for showing the "%" bar graph.

BLOCKS.DXF HEADER.DXF TABLES.DXF

These files are used by the Emalyse program to produce plot files in the "Fig. Exchange File" format.

Fig. 8: A window with user information is displayed during program and data loading. The bar graph shows the progress of loading.

The final composition of the screen is determined by the latest used desktop file. After starting the program for the first time, the data -window and the "X/Y- window" appear. If the acoustic board is installed, there will appear two more acoustic windows: one contains the sound curve of the whole sweep and the second window shows a zoomed area around the cursor position.

The following steps will set up a basic working area:

1. Open your data by choosing the option "open data file" from the file-menu. A message box with "OK" button shows the file and directory of the selected study.
2. Choose the new curve window from the windows menu. Click the -button to select the type of curves you want to see.
3. Select the data-view-window by clicking its title-bar. Click the -button to create a new box. Click the -button to select the curves for which numerical values should be shown.

Apart from the acoustic windows, the Emalyse program offers two types of graphic windows with extended features:

Fig. 9: The X/Y window (left) and the curve window (right) are the two types of general Emalyse windows. The curve gets a speed bar on top, when it is selected.

The X/Y-window shows the trajectories of the sensor movements in an X/Y coordinate system, and the curve-windows show movement signals on a time axis.

In both windows, the color of a curve (drawing) belongs to the channel from which the curve is generated:

With the right mouse button, you can open a local menu that offers you zoom, layer and print commands. The individual zoom commands are described on the X/Y- and curve-window pages.

Layer

A dialog appears with a list of groups that are displayed inside the window. Each line consists of the group name, a check button and a menu button.

With the checkbox you can decide if the whole group is displayed or not.

The menu button (...) opens a dialog with a list of drawings belonging to this group.

As in the above dialog, each line consists of the drawing name, a check button and a menu button.

With the checkbox you can decide if this drawing is displayed or not.

The menu button (...) opens a dialog to change the color of this drawing. Any changes of the color stay only valid until the sweep is changed.

The X/Y-window has a fixed set of 3 groups: grid, trajectories and reference contours.

For example: With the list of reference contours, you can identify the channel and sweep, from which trajectory each contour has been generated. You also can switch on and off the display of each reference-contour.

print...

Two options are offered: "DXF-out all" and "DXF-out view".

The "DXF-out all" command produces a data file with the extension *.dxf. The data format is named "Fig. eXchange Format". This is a general format that other programs can read.

The content of the data file is the whole drawing of the selected window. To get a hard-copy of the graphic, please switch to a general word processing or graphic program, that is able to read in *.dxf files.

The "DXF-out view" command does the same, but instead of the whole graphic, only the visible area is written to the *.dxf file.

The red line, which is shown in all time-displays, is called cursor. There is just one cursor, other vertical lines are called marker.

When you move the mouse cursor while the left mouse button is pressed, the cursor is forced to the mouse cursor and follows its movement until the mouse button is released. This movement is done synchronously in all windows.

You can move the cursor inside all the curve windows and inside the acoustic window. The numeric values shown in the data window always correspond to the actual time position of the cursor.

With the option Display general, you can switch off the synchrony movement .

With the general option "save options on end" active, the Emalyse program will load the latest used data set on program start. This is done by reading all adjustment information from the latest used Desktop File *.dsk.

Inside the X/Y-window, the special X/Y-cursor is represented by crosses.

All time references to a position of the main cursor or a marker are done by the sample number. To calculate the time[sec] inside a sweep, you have to devide the sample number by the measuring frequency[Hz].

The actual cursor position is shown in the title bar of the magnified acoustic-window.

The right mouse button offers a local menu in the curve- and X/Y-window.

Zoom

Different zoom functions allows you to change the scale of the graphic display. Scroll bars become available to move the scope inside the graphic area.

Layer

The layer serves the adjustment of color of the individual graphics elements. These adjustments are window internal and will not be maintained.

Print ...

A drawing exchange file (DXF - format) is generated and saved to disk. To get a real hard copy, it is required to read in this file with a general program that is able to print.

The curve windows are able to display a user selectable set of function curves over time. The Data window also shows the numeric values of a selectable set of function curves in each box.

The dialog for the curve selection can be called at any time with the button at the top of the selected curve- or Data window.

Fig. 10: With this dialog, the contents of each curve window is selected. The upper left pull down menu offers the available sets of curves.

A dialog with two lists appears. Inside the left list "available curves", several sets of curves are offered for your selection.

The right list shows the currently selected curves.

Available curves:

First you have to select the group of curves with help of the upper pull down menu. Each group holds a special kind of data from all channels. The selected group name is displayed in the upper window.

The list below holds the list of all curves belonging to this group. You can select one or more curves and copy them to the display-list by using the ">>>" button.

Displayed curves:

Here are the curves you have selected for display in a curve-window or in a box of the data-window.

Curves can be marked with the mouse-pointer and removed from the display list by using the "remove selected curves"-button.

The first selected curve name also becomes the title of the curve window.

All menu commands can be triggered with the "Alt" key together with the underlined character in the menu command.

Cursor keys move the main cursor

left arrow move the main cursor to the previous sample

right arrow move the main cursor to the next sample

Ctrl + Cursor keys move the main cursor to marker

left arrow position the main cursor on the previous marker

right arrow position the main cursor on the next marker

To position the cursor on an end marker of a segment, use the Ctrl + End key.

Shift + Cursor keys move the marker

These commands are only valid, when the cursor is positioned on a marker.

left arrow move a marker position to the previous sample

right arrow move a marker position to the next sample

Ctrl + Home/End keys move the cursor to segment limits

Ctrl Home position the main cursor on the start of the current segment

Ctrl End position the main cursor on the end of the current segment

Alt + "R"/"S" keys runs cursor and replays the acoustic signal

Alt + "R" runs the cursor along the whole sweep and replays the sound.

Alt + "S" runs the cursor through the current segment and replays the sound.

Alt + "N" Note down - Each measured positions, of all channels are converted into one ASCII line.

All adjusted parameters can be stored in a Desktop file by using the save set-up function.

It is also possible to have a special directory for your personal Desktop Files. You need not store it in the same directory where Emalyse is stored.

With the save options on end option, the current Desktop File is updated on program end. The name and the complete path of the *.dsk file are written into the emalyse.ini file in the following format:

[Desktop]

DSFile=c:\work\emalyse\test.dsk

This allows the Emalyse program to find the latest used Desktop file and to re install the latest set-up.

Different window types of the Emalyse program

The X/Y-window serves to display the measured data in the kind of representation you are used to from recording in the program ART.EXE. Each measured position is represented by the endpoint of a thin line. The actual cursor position is marked by a large cross.

With the option lines instead of crosses, the display mode can be changed so that each measured point is displayed by a small cross.

You can activate an X/Y-Cursor. This cursor connects each channel at the actual cursor position with a user-selectable line-type.

Click the right mouse button in the window to obtain a menu:

Zoom window:

You can determine the corner points of a rectangle, whose index will be enlarged to the dimension of the window.

Zoom in:

The magnifying factor will be doubled.

Zoom out:

The magnifying factor will be divided by two.

Zoom boundaries:

The magnifying factor will be set to 1. Then all the graphics information will be displayed in the window.

Layer:

The layer serves the adjustment of color of the individual graphics elements. These adjustments are window internal and will not be preserved.

Print...:

With the "DXF-out all" and "DXF-out view", you are provided with two options to perform a printout of the window information into a data file.

Further details are explained in the chapter "How to use the graphic-window".

The curve window is Emalyse’s general window format. It shows a user selected set of signals over time. The time axis is the same for all curve windows and is identical to the length of the current sweep.

curves to be displayed :

Command to modify the list of the curves displayed in the corresponding curve-window. A dialog for curve-selection appears.

frame button:

The title-bar and the bold frame of the curve window will be removed to provide more display space. The only disadvantage of this display mode is that the window can not be moved or resized.

Selecting this command again will restore the original state.

The menu command "frame on/off" in window-menu has the same effect, but acts on all curve windows.

Click the right mouse button inside the desired window to obtain an extra menu with display and print commands:

Zoom in:

The magnifying factor of the time-axis will be doubled, the scaling of the Y-axis stays the same!

Zoom out:

The magnifying factor of the time-axis will be divided by two, the scaling of the Y-axis stays the same!

Zoom boundaries:

The magnifying factor will be set to 1. Then all the graphics information will be displayed in the window.

Layer:

The layer serves the adjustment of color of the individual graphics elements. These adjustments are window internal and will not be preserved.

print...:

With the "DXF-out all" and "DXF-out view", you are provided with two options to perform a printout of the window information into a data file.

Further details are explained in the chapter "How to use the graphic-window".

Inside the Data-View-window several boxes can be displayed. Each box contains numerical values of the selected set of curves.

These values refer to the actual time position of the cursors.

The following commands can be selected in the speed bar at the top of the window.

Fig. 11: The Data window offers any number of boxes with selectable information at the actual cursor position.

create new box:

A new box will appear with the title "-No curves-" and the "Layout-Mode"(see below) is selected to position the box inside the window by use of the mouse. You can reorganize the positions afterwards with the Layout-Mode command.

create info-box:

This command is similar to the above command, except that there appears one special box with predefined contents.

The info-box shows some general information about the actual sweep, the cursor-position and actual segment name. It shows the sampling rate (ms/sample), actual cursor position (ms), the sweep length (sample) as well as the sweep length (ms)

display numerical values of the curves:

Changes the list of the curves displayed in a box. An upwards pointing arrow appears to select the desired box.

A dialog for the curve-selection will be shown. The numerical values will be displayed after the first cursor movement.

Layout-Mode:

In order to switch on or off the layout-mode, click the layout-button. The layout-mode will be displayed in the title-bar of the window: (DataView) ** Layout-Modus **.

While the layout-mode is active, you can move individual boxes and modify their size; similar to the procedure you are used to with regular 'Windows' windows.

Select the layout-button again to leave the layout-mode.

remove box:

Click the delete button in order to get an upwards pointing arrow, with which you click the box that is to be deleted.

Please note that when you scroll down inside the data window the speed bar with the above buttons will disappear.

The acoustic-window is visible only when acoustic data is loaded. This is automatically done, when loading the data, if the general display option "display acoustic-data" is marked.

The acoustic data are displayed in two windows:

The complete sound signal

Fig. 12: The acoustic window always displays the sound signal from the whole sweep. All Marker and Segments also appear in this window.

The first acoustic-window shows the complete sound signal of the whole sweep. In this window, the cursor, marker and segments are displayed the same way as in the representation of curves.

By holding down the left mouse-key inside the window, you can move the cursor on the time-axis.

The zoomed sound signal around the actual cursor position

Fig. 13: Inside the zoomed acoustic window, one sound sample per pixel is displayed. The title bar shows the time and sample of the current cursor position.

The second window contains one acoustic sample per screen pixel around the cursor. The cursor position is always at the center of the window.

The title bar of this window shows the current cursor position in milliseconds and the sample number at this point.

The protocol-window serves as a scratch pad during your work with the Emalyse program. This window has all features of a text editor.

With the buttons at the top, you can load, modify and save any text.

Beside the comments you can type in, the Emalyse program can also add data into this window:

The note down command will add the numerical values at the end of the text. This data is for further processing of the movement data with other programs.

The config-window includes information generated during the investigation. You can find more information by loading the corresponding protocol file (*.prt).

The Config-window contains the *.CFG-File that is created during the investigation by the "Art.exe" program. This window is only to show some of the parameter settings used for the investigation.

The title bar shows the complete drive and directory where the current data are loaded from.

You can find more information by loading the corresponding protocol file (*.prt) into the protocol-window.

Program functions in the menu line

open data file

Command to change to another investigation.

A dialog box appears to open a *.tim file. You are asked to select the drive and directory of the desired investigation and load the *.tim file.

The program automatically loads all other necessary files according to the selected investigation.

If the general display option "show acoustic-data" is checked, the acoustic data will also be loaded.

The reference contours will be deleted, unless the option "keep reference-contour" is not selected.

load set-up

The current adjustments of the program environment can be saved or loaded. All adjusted parameters are stored in a Desktop File with the extension *.dsk.

This allows you to establish different environments for evaluations under different aspects.

For example: The file "segment.dsk" holds the window arrangement to define the segment borders and the file "velocity.dsk" holds a set of velocity curve windows.

It is also possible to have a special directory for your personal Desktop Files. You need not to store it in the same directory where the Emalyse is stored.

save set-up

Within a "Save as.." dialog you can write the set-up into a Desktop File whose name corresponds to your working situation. With the save options on end option, the current Desktop Files is updated on program end.

Edit

This menu item relates to the protocol-window. Only when the protocol window is active are the following commands valid:

cut:

Delete the marked text from the document.

copy:

Copies the marked text from the document to the clipboard. The document stays unmodified. The previous contents of the clipboard will be deleted.

paste:

Inserts a copy of the contents of the clipboard or replaces the marked text of the document.

find:

Searches for the given text.

find and replace:

Searches the given text and replaces it.

find next:

Repeats the last search without opening the search dialog-window .

Emalyse 2.0

Shows a message box with the revision information of the Emalyse program

memory..

Shows a message box with the amount of free memory.

Exit

The command to quit current work with the Emalyse program

New curve-window

An additional curve-window will be displayed. You can open any number of curve-windows, as long the Windows-Resources are not exhausted.

frames on/off (menu window)

The title-bar and the bold frame of the selected curve window will be removed to provide more display space. The only disadvantage of this display mode is, that the window can not be moved or resized.

Selecting this command again will restore the original state.

This menu item is equivalent to the frame-button in the speed bar of each curve-window.

all frames on/off

This command has the same function as frames on/off, however, it affects to all open windows.

tile

Divides the screen among all open windows.

cascade

Arrange the open windows overlapping each other.

arrange symbols

Arranges the icons of the windows that are scaled down to symbols in the lower left corner of the main window.

window-list

A list with the titles of all open windows. The selected window is marked with a check. Select any window to set it in the foreground.

general display

show acoustic-data

Unchecking this option will hide the acoustic-window and speeds up the sweep-loading.

move cursor simultaneously in all windows

If this option is checked, the cursor-movement will be displayed in all windows simultaneously; otherwise the positions are updated when you release the left mouse-button.

lines instead of crosses

If this option is unchecked, the samples in the X/Y-cursor are displayed as crosses; otherwise the samples of one channel are connected with lines.

X/Y-cursor

This command offers a dialog where you can create the shape of the X/Y cursor. This cursor will be displayed inside the X/Y-window. It runs synchronously with the main cursor (red line) inside the windows with signal over time display.

Fig. 14: With the above setting in the X/Y-Cursor dialog, the line leads from channel 2 to channel 1 and ends at channel 3.

crosses:

With this option set, the measured position at the time point of the actual cursor position is marked by a large cross.

set to 0

Deletes items in the table and sets every field to 0.

standard

Sets the cursor to a form such that the line leads from channel 1 to channel 2, to channel 3 to channel 4 and ends at channel 5.

create chain from channel no. .. to .. to...

With this option, you can switch off the line of the X/Y cursor without losing the sequence of the line drawing.

cursor form

Inside the Table there is a field for each corner of the line that has to represent the X/Y cursor. Inside the white area you can type in the corresponding channel. In other words, you have to select from what channel the line has to start, and to what channel it is drawn.

With this you define the sequence where the line is led between the different channels.

Fields with a 0 in them will be ignored.

add reference-contour

A dialog appears with a table of 15 channels. The gray marked channels are not present in the current data.

You can mark one ore more channels. The marked X/Y-trajectories inside the current sweep will become a reference contour and stay permanent inside the X/Y-window.

All reference contours get the same dark red color.

To add a reference contour from another sweep, you have to close this dialog, change to the desired sweep and call this command again.

To keep a reference contour from another investigation, refer to keep reference contour .

With the command clear reference-contour all reference contours are removed.

By clicking the right mouse button inside the X/Y-window, you get a local menu with a Layer command. If you have a large number of reference contours, this command offers the possibility to select a desired set of reference contours to be displayed. The selection procedure is described in "how to use the graphics-window".

clear reference-contour (menu display)

Deletes all existing reference-contours.

The reference-contours you have generated with the add reference-contour normally stay resident the whole session, until you load a new data set.

To keep a reference contour from another investigation, refer to keep reference contour .

By clicking the right mouse button inside the X/Y-window, you get a local menu with a Layer command.

If you have a large number of reference contours, and want to remove only some of them, please use the possibility to select a desired set of reference contours to be displayed. The selection procedure is described in "how to use the graphics-window".

general options

save marker positions

The name, position, type and notes of all markers that belong to a sweep can be saved into a file with the extension *.s01 for the first sweep and *.s99 for sweep number 99.

This is done before a new sweep is loaded if the "save marker positions" option is active.

When this option is not active all marker and segment information generated in the current session is lost when another sweep is loaded.

load marker positions

When this option is active, the program searches inside the directory of the current data for a file with the extension *.s and the current sweep number.

If this file is present, the program loads all marker and segments with their information.

combinations of the load/save marker options

To store the right information during several sessions, it is important to keep in mind what the combinations of the above options will do:

- both options active:

The existing marker and segment from previous sessions will be loaded. Any changes during the current session will be saved.

- load active and save inactive:

The existing markers and segments from previous sessions will be loaded. Any changes during the current session are ignored. The previous state stays unchanged.

- load inactive and save active:

The existing markers and segments from previous sessions will not be loaded and are lost after the session. Any newly created markers and segments are stored.

- both options inactive:

No markers and segment from previous sessions are loaded and any new created marker and segments are ignored after a new sweep is loaded.

keep reference contour

If this option is checked the reference-contour will not be cleared when loading another data-set. This allows you to compare sweeps of different investigations.

save options on end

All environment information and adjusted options are stored into the current set-up file (*.dsk). The program performs the same function as if you do the save set-up

On the next program start, the screen will have the same windows and window sizes as when you leave the Emalyse program. The same data set will also be loaded.

Note down format

In this dialog you can do the set-up for the note down command. Each measured positions, of all channels are converted into one ASCII line.

separator

For general data base programs different separators between the numeric values are required. You can select whether you want a semicolon, a coma or a tabulator character between each number.

count

With count, you determine the number of measured positions to be saved each time you activate the note down command. If you select 5 positions to save, there will be two positions before the cursor position itself and two positions after the cursor.

Each time you activate this command, the sensor positions at the current cursor position are written down inside the protocol window.

The purpose is to move the cursor to important time positions and save the data at this cursor position. The format of the data can be selected with the note down format command. This allows you to work on the extracted data with general data base and calculation programs.

All run commands inside this menu are done once and their mode is stored. The play command will start the latest run command again.

run whole sweep

The program runs the cursor inside all the windows from the beginning to the end of the sweep. The cursor moves with the original speed to show the movements as they were during the investigation. The sound signal is played out synchronously to the speakers.

With the set play time command, you can set the cursor movement to half the speed of the real-time movements.

run current segment

This command has the same effect as the run whole sweep except it runs inside the segment where the cursor is.

run post cursor

This command has the same effect as the run whole sweep except it runs from the current cursor position for the defined time segment. The time segment can be adjusted with the set play time command.

run pre cursor

This command has the same effect as the run whole sweep except it runs for the defined time segment up to the current cursor position . The time segment can be adjusted with the set play time command.

set play time

A dialog box offers you a check box and a scroll bar:

Fig. 15: The "set play time" dialog offer a scroll bar to adjust the play time to start before or to stop after the current cursor position. The check box causes all play modes to run at half speed.

play at half speed

If this check box is activated, all play modes will run at half the speed of the real-time movements. The sound is also output at half the frequency of the original sound.

play time post/pre cursor

With this scroll bar, the lengths of the time segment for the commands run pre cursor and run post cursor can be adjusted.

The program runs the cursor inside all the windows. The sound signal is output synchronously to the speakers.

The actual effect of this command depends on the latest command that was executed from the play mode . In other words, the latest "play" command is repeated.

The Tool Box has a title bar, a row of function buttons and a comment line. To remove the Tool Box, click the Marker again or use the close button in the title bar.

Title Bar

The title bar holds a short description of the function button on which the cursor is actually positioned. In the time, when the cursor is not positioned on one of the function buttons the title line shows 'marker and segment tools'.

Click on the title bar and hold the mouse button down to move the Tool Box.

Function buttons

The leftmost two buttons place a 'cut' marker at the actual Cursor position. This marker forces the Tailor program to cut the sweep from the beginning (or from the end) up to this marker.

The next two buttons force the Tailor program to build new sweeps. The 'create new sweep' segment just builds an additional sweep according to the segment limits.

The 'add to average' uses the segment data for calculating average movement curves from all 'add to average' segments.

The following two buttons create a general purpose marker and segment. These types are the same as in former revisions.

The arrow buttons have the same function as the Shortcuts Ctrl +Cursor key. They move the main cursor to the next marker or segment limit.

The two rightmost buttons are to delete markers or segments.

comment line

This line is empty if the main cursor is not positioned on a marker or inside a segment. Otherwise you can see the information about the segment or marker at the cursor.

This allows you to verify which segment or marker the 'edit' or 'delete function' will affect.

This option hides or displays the Tool Box for marker and segment handling. The Marker option in the menu line acts also for modify and create segments.

There are three different marker types available. Each marker Type has its own button for creation. To find the desired button, please read the Title line from the Tool Box. The button will create a new marker at the actual cursor position.

Emalyse Marker for general purpose

The purpose is to mark a time point inside a sweep.

The information from the following markers will become a part of the Emalyse Script and can advise the Tailor program to automatic data processing.

'Cut from begin to here' - marker

All data from the beginning of the sweep up to the time point of this marker are erased by the Tailor program and the administrative data are updated.

'Cut from here to end' - marker

All data from the time point of this marker up to the end of the sweep are erased by the Tailor program and the administrative data are updated.

With the 'edit current marker' button in the Tool Box, you can add a comment to this marker. There appears a dialog box with a note window to enter a comment.

This dialog has a preset button to set the default values for the actual marker type

The Tool Box for marker and segment handling has all necessary function buttons for edit and create Marker and Segments.

There are three different segment types available. Each segment Type has its own button for creation. To find the desired button, please read the Title line from the Tool Box. The button will create a new segment at the actual cursor position. The position for marker begin and marker end is set according to the preset value. The preset values can be modified with the 'edit current segment' button in the Tool Box.

This dialog has a preset button to set the default values for the actual segment type. Please not that the 'Add this segment to average" type segment must have the same values in 'relative position' and 'size' for all segments of the data set to get correct data. This is because the according Tailor function will build one average movement sweep from all segments.

Emalyse segment for general purpose

A new sweep is built out of the data inside this segment. The segment comment is copied into the comment field of the new sweep.

The information from the following segments will become a part of the Emalyse Script and can advise the Tailor program to automatic data processing.

Create sweep from this segment

A new sweep is built out of the data inside this segment. The segment comment is copied into the comment field of the new sweep.

Add this segment to average

The contents of the sweep is used to build the average out of all segments that are from this type and have the same name. The result that contains the average movement is added as a new sweep to the data set. The common segment name becomes the comment of this sweep.

Note down marker & segment

There is an extra button in the Tool Box for marker and segment handling to add all marker and segment information to the protocol window.

The word sweep describes the sequence of movement and acoustic data that are recorded continuously. With the Art.exe program, it is possible to record sweeps with a length of up to one minute or 16000 samples in each channel.

The sweep command offers a list with all recorded sweeps:

Fig. 17: With the sweep list, you can select the desired sweep by the help of the comments.

If was entered there a comment for each sweep, it will appear behind the sweep number.

With help of the comment, it is easier to find and select the desired sweep. The OK-button will load the selected sweep.

>> next sweep

The next sweep will be loaded.

The next sweep of the current data set will be loaded. If the current sweep is the last one, the first sweep will be loaded.

<< previous sweep

The previous sweep of the current data set will be loaded. If the current sweep is the first one, the last sweep will be loaded.

Tips

- move cursor inside the acoustic window

- position the acoustic window in the lower screen

Glossary

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