Batch conversion of CHAT files to Praat TextGrids

[Leonid Spektor]

Fredrik,

    Those CHAT files do not pass check. Without actually seen the data file
I can only guess that bullets somehow got moved to the beginning of the
line. The only characters allowed at the beginning of the line are: * @ %
and tab. Try using "chstring" command, "chstring -q *.cha". This will
re-wrap tiers properly and will insert tabs where needed, but there could be
other errors that will cause other problems. The best thing to do is to run
"check *.cha" program on all the data and fix all reported errors.

    If you are still having problems send me a sample of the data and I'll
see what is wrong.

Leonid.



On 22-08-08 11:57, "Fredrik Karlsson" <dargosch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I whant to convert allt the .cha-files I downloaded from the ESF
> Corpus made public through the MPI archive system. I have tried CLANS
> chat2praat program, but it fails. This is the log:
> 
>> dir *.cha
> cha liean11b.1.cha liean12e.1.cha liean13g.1.cha
> liean14a.1.cha liean14a.2.cha liean16a.1.cha liean16k.1.cha
> liean17l.1.cha liean18a.1.cha liean18c.1.cha liean22a.1.cha
> liean22e.1.cha liean22g.1.cha liean23c.1.cha liean24a.1.cha
> liean24i.1.cha liean25a.1.cha liean25k.1.cha liean27l.1.cha
> liean31a.1.cha liean31d.1.cha liean32a.1.cha liean32e.1.cha
> liean32g.1.cha liean32h.1.cha liean34q.1.cha liean35j.1.cha
> test.cha unixfile.cha
> 
> 30 files, 0 directories
> 
>> chat2praat +e.wav liean11a.1.cha
> chat2praat +e.wav liean11a.1.cha
> Thu Aug 21 18:01:19 2008
> chat2praat (28-Jul-2008) is conducting analyses on:
> ALL speaker tiers
> and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers
> and ALL header tiers
> ****************************************
> From file <liean11a.1.cha> to file <liean11a.1.textGrid>
> 
> 
> *** File "liean11a.1.cha": line 16.
> Illegal speaker character found: 15.
> 
> CURRENT OUTPUT FILE "liean11a.1.textGrid" IS INCOMPLETE.
> 
> Line 16 of the file is:
> 
> ^U%snd: "liean11a.wav" 9383 13613^U
> 
> where ^U seems to be a \x0015. Removing the character with perl
> 
>> perl -nae 's/\x15//;print'  liean11a.1.cha > test_liean11a.1.cha
> 
> makes the file not readable for CLAN:
> 
> .....
> *** File "test_liean11a.1.cha": line 1481. <- Lots of messages like
> this one
> It is illegal to have Header Tiers '@' inside the transcript
> 
> 
>     NO BULLETS FOUND IN THE FILE
> 
> 
> Done with file <test_liean11a.1.textGrid>
> 
> So, what do I do? The chat2elan seems to behave the same way.
> 
> I would, or course, appreciate any help I could get.
> 
> /Fredrik
> > 
> 



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