Forced-Alignment-and-Vowel-Extraction/new-fave

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title: Variable Naming Conventions
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## Property naming descriptors

### From Descriptors

- `cand`: candidate tracks. 
    - Returns 
        - list of [](`fasttrackpy.OneTrack`)s
        - a [](`numpy.array`) of concatenated results from [](`fasttrackpy.OneTrack`)s
- `winner`: The winner track
    - Returns
        - A single [](`fasttrackpy.OneTrack`)
        - a [](`numpy.array`) of concatenated results from winner [](`fasttrackpy.OneTrack`)s

### Value Descriptors

- `param`: The DCT parameters
- `maxformant`: The maximum formant
- `error`: The smoothing error term
- `bparam`: The formant bandwidths parameters

### Summary Descriptors

- `mean`: A mean
- `cov`: A covariance matrix
- `icov`: An inverse covariance matrix


### Derived Values Descriptors

- `mahal`: Mahalanobis distance
- `logprob`: The log probability

### Scope Descriptors

- `vm`: Vowel Measurement
- `vclass`: Vowel Class
- `speaker`: Speaker
- `corpus`: Corpus

### Scope Subdivision Descriptors

- `global`: Global
- `byvclass`: By VowelClass

## Property Naming Structure

- `source`_`value`_`derived`_`scope`_`subdivision`
- `source`_`value`_`summary`
- `source`_`value`