Software Details
| Title: | Prosody Research Tools Available |
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| Submitter: | Yi Xu |
| Description: | We are pleased to announce the availability of two Praat script tools for conducting large-scale prosody research: PENTAtrainer and ProsodyPro, both freely accessible at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/yi/tools.html. 1. PENTAtrainer (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/yi/PENTAtrainer/) An interactive script for automatic extraction of pitch targets for prosody synthesis. It is based on the qTA implementation of the PENTA model, and it allows users to: - Automatically extract pitch target parameters (slope, height, strength) - Resynthesize F0 contours based on the extracted parameters - Specify target location and restrict direction of target slope - Exhaustively process all wave files in a folder - Perform the same f0 analyses as ProsodyPro (See below) - Automatically collect extracted parameters from all sounds in a folder and save them in ensemble files for ease of further analysis and processing 2. ProsodyPro (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/yi/ProsodyPro/) An interactive script for large-scale systematic prosody analysis. This is an updated version of its predecessor TimeNormalizeF0. Among its many feature are the following: - Semi-automatic extraction of F0 contours, allowing users to improve the accuracy of F0 tracking by rectifying vocal pulse marking - Exhaustively process all wave files in a folder - Automatically save time-normalized F0 and intensity contours for selected intervals - Automatically save continuous F0 velocity contours for selected intervals - Automatically save many prosodic measurements, including: maxf0, minf0, f0range, meanf0, mean intensity, duration, max velocity, final velocity, final f0 and mean intensity - Automatically collect extracted contours and measurements from all sounds in a folder and save them in ensemble files for ease of further analysis and processing Explanations and instructions can be found at the web sites. For more information and bug reports, please contact yi.xu@ucl.ac.uk |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Phonetics Phonology Text/Corpus Linguistics Cognitive Science |
| LL Issue: | 21.3735 |
| Date Posted: | 21-Sep-2010 |
