Questions tagged [praat]

Praat is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics.

Praat is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It has been designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various Unix versions, GNU/Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). The program also supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praat

https://github.com/praat/praat

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Python: Parsing complex text file by delimiter

I'm quite new to Python and generally used to Java. I'm currently trying to parse a text file outputted by Praat that is always in the same format and looks generally like this, with a few more features: -- Voice report for 53. Sound…
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Selecting specific data from text spreadsheet on Praat

Praat scripting noobie here. I'm expanding on a pre-existing piece of code right now, and it produces a bunch of tables based on a set of sound data, and here's a couple examples of what they look like when pasted into Excel: As you can see, there…
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praat - combine multiple wav files

I have 136 wav files named numerically (1.wav to 136. wav), plus a wav file that contains 2 seconds of silence. I would like to combine them as follows, generating several other files: 1 + silence + 2 + silence (copy) + 3 1 + silence + 2 +…
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is it possible to add tiers automatically in praat

Is there a way to add tiers to Praat scripts automatically from the terminal? I want to iterate over thousands of files and add a second tier with a specific name and would prefer not to this manually.
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Trying to read from one Praat TextGrid and write to a new Praat TextGrid - Error on Inserting the interval into the new TextGrid

I'm trying to read from one TextGrid modify the text and put that text into an interval of a new TextGrid. I'm getting an error when I try to insert it into the new TextGrid. I'm looking for certain text marked by the and . And that is…
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Praat scripting: Extracting syllable tier together with accent tier with extra changes

I want to extract syllables together with the corresponding accents. If a syllable doesn't have an accent, there will be "no" on the accent part. My coding example looks like this: writeInfo: "" selectObject: "TextGrid example" # syllable tier…
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Praat scripting: How to get rid of "_" in accent tier and it's corresponding syllables in Info Window?

I have a point tier that shows accents. I also have a syllable tier. I need to extract the labels of the syllable tier with the corresponding accents. The only thing that I don't need is the extracting of the label "_" and "%" in the accent…
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How to get or save the pitch listing in praat using scripting

I am trying to use scripting in praat to either save or write to a file with the values given from using "Pitch Listing" under "Pitch". This is my code for the script so far: selectObject: 1 View & Edit editor: 1 Select: 0.0, 10000 Pitch…
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Look for multiple words in praat script

I am writing a praat script that will search through multiple files for a list of words. This is what I have so far. It only zooms in to the first word in the procedure, and doesn't loop through the rest. I think this has something to do with what…
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get the path and filename of an object

Is there a way within a praatscript to query the path and filename of an object. I want to save a textgrid to the same file I opened (overwite it) I was think of something like: selectObject: n type_name$ = selected$ () file_name$ =…
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Praat pitch extraction at calculated points or boundaries (not mean pitch in intervals)

I'm adapting a script where for each soundfile and textgrid in a folder I go through each syllable label, divide the label into three equal parts and then extract the pitch at the midpoint of each part and save the information about midpoints and…
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Adding Keyboard Shortcuts in PRAAT

I'm hoping to create a shortcut that allows the user to replay the last 10ms as well as a short cut that allows the user to play the subsequent 10ms of an audio file. Do folks know any methods for incorporating shortcuts like this into PRAAT or any…
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select a list of objects in praat

I have a list of objects from a for loop and I would like to append them to a list so that I can select and concatenate them. My idea is that the code would function more or less like this: for stringNumber from 0 to numberOfStrings do string…
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Compiling .cpp file using Cmake Software

I want to create a binary file after compiling .cpp file and create a plug-in for a speech processing software (Praat). However, this binary file creates compatibility issues on different platforms (Windows, Mac , Linux). I want to solve this by…
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Installing python-praat-scripts in Ubuntu

I want to install the python-praat-scripts package. It says: Installation You can install python-praat-scripts through pip via: pip install python-praat-scripts Or through downloading this repository and running: python setup.py install Once…
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