Computes the triangular filterbank for MFCC computation 
    (used in the stFeatureExtraction function before the stMFCC function call)
    This function is taken from the scikits.talkbox library (MIT Licence):
    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikits.talkbox

def mfccInitFilterBanks(fs, nfft):
    """
    Computes the triangular filterbank for MFCC computation 
    (used in the stFeatureExtraction function before the stMFCC function call)
    This function is taken from the scikits.talkbox library (MIT Licence):
    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikits.talkbox
    """

    # filter bank params:
    lowfreq = 133.33
    linsc = 200/3.
    logsc = 1.0711703
    numLinFiltTotal = 13
    numLogFilt = 27

    if fs < 8000:
        nlogfil = 5

    # Total number of filters
    nFiltTotal = numLinFiltTotal + numLogFilt

    # Compute frequency points of the triangle:
    freqs = numpy.zeros(nFiltTotal+2)
    freqs[:numLinFiltTotal] = lowfreq + numpy.arange(numLinFiltTotal) * linsc
    freqs[numLinFiltTotal:] = freqs[numLinFiltTotal-1] * logsc ** numpy.arange(1, numLogFilt + 3)
    heights = 2./(freqs[2:] - freqs[0:-2])

    # Compute filterbank coeff (in fft domain, in bins)
    fbank = numpy.zeros((nFiltTotal, nfft))
    nfreqs = numpy.arange(nfft) / (1. * nfft) * fs

    for i in range(nFiltTotal):
        lowTrFreq = freqs[i]
        cenTrFreq = freqs[i+1]
        highTrFreq = freqs[i+2]

        lid = numpy.arange(numpy.floor(lowTrFreq * nfft / fs) + 1, 
                           numpy.floor(cenTrFreq * nfft / fs) + 1,  
                                       dtype=numpy.int)
        lslope = heights[i] / (cenTrFreq - lowTrFreq)
        rid = numpy.arange(numpy.floor(cenTrFreq * nfft / fs) + 1, 
                                       numpy.floor(highTrFreq * nfft / fs) + 1, 
                                       dtype=numpy.int)
        rslope = heights[i] / (highTrFreq - cenTrFreq)
        fbank[i][lid] = lslope * (nfreqs[lid] - lowTrFreq)
        fbank[i][rid] = rslope * (highTrFreq - nfreqs[rid])

    return fbank, freqs