LINGUIST List 17.2202

Mon Jul 31 2006

Sum: Query 17.2096 Tone Realisation in Yoruba

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    B-Rotimi Badejo, Query 17.2096 Tone Realisation in Yoruba

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Message 1: Query 17.2096 Tone Realisation in Yoruba
Date: 30-Jul-2006
From: B-Rotimi Badejo <badejobr2003yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Query 17.2096 Tone Realisation in Yoruba


I wish to express my gratitude to the following for responding:Mark JonesFay WoukYi XuTunde Awogbola'Yiwola Awoyale (who passed on Prof. William Poser's suggestion)

The majority opinion is that ''Praat'' is the ''industry standard'' (seeMark Jones's comments below). Yi Xu, however, has supplementary informationat the following addresses:

(i)www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/yi/downloads.html

(ii)Some helpful tips can be found at the FAQ page: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/yi/FAQ1.html

Mark Jones's assessment of some of the existing tools is as follows:

**Praat is freeware available from www.praat.org and is becoming the''industry standard'' but is far from easy to use initially. Very good ifyou wish to run scripts and automated analysis. If not, maybe you shouldlook elsewhere.

**Wavesurfer can be downloaded free fromhttp://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/, a department of the Royal Instituteof Technology in Stockholm. Much easier to use initially, but in some waysless flexible, than Praat.

**SpeechAnalyzer is freeware from SIL athttp://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/. It's a very big file, but easierto use than Praat. Some nice features.

**Wasp is free from the Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics at UniversityCollege London. It's very basic, but it may be all you need:http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm

Yours sincerely,B.R. BadejoDept. of Languages and Linguistics,University of Maiduguri,Maiduguri 600001 NIGERIA Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             General Linguistics                             Phonetics