User talk:Sibyl.ambazhachalil/sandbox

Peer Review

1. Looking at the text below your "Mainspace Information" heading, I was especially impressed with the way that you integrated the linguistics we learned in class with the topic of your article. In the "Characteristics of the Voice" section, I liked that you explained why certain terms are useful, but didn't explain what those terms were, because they already have Wikipedia articles, so explaining those terms would be repetitive. In the "Use in Forensics" section, your explanation of the voice identification software was succinct and understandable to a lay audience; I was really impressed by how you managed to explain the software without going into unnecessary details.
2. I've made a few spelling and grammar fixes in the text below your "Mainspace Information" heading, none of them major. Besides that, in your "Characteristics of the Voice" section, I suggest that you explain why a keyboard would be helpful for pitch analysis and that you explain a bit more why someone singing a scale with the same loudness would be helpful for loudness analysis. Would the keyboard be so the person can match the keyboard's tone with their voice? Would the scale be to show that the person cannot produce certain notes if using the same loudness for the whole scale? Also, I suggest that you clarify why the characteristics you list are useful in voice evaluation (presumably because everyone has a unique combination of the characteristics?). In your "Use in Forensics" section, you could expand it, if you wanted, to include some of the techniques mentioned in the Olsson & Luchjenbroers reading from Week 11, such as the aural-perceptual approach. And I suggest that in both these sections, you add links to Wikipedia articles about the terms you mention ("pitch", "loudness", the Trayvon Martin case, etc), and add in your citations.
3. I think the most important thing you could do to improve your article is to clarify why the voice characteristics you mention in the "Characteristics of the Voice" section are important. This is the most important change, I think, because it is the reason for adding the section to your article, and also ties together the whole "Characteristics of the Voice" section. Besides that change, the rest of your planned article changes are really good, and look like they would expand your article well, in terms of adding linguistic knowledge to it!
TaLang (talk) 01:21, 31 March 2018 (UTC)