<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Cat,<div><br></div><div>Reading your description of what you want to do I’m wondering it if is necessary to use an aligner,</div><div>as it would seem that a simple marking of the vowel center is all you need (although a script to </div><div>extract formant values would no doubt be useful). There is no need to do a complete segmentation.</div><div>Are you working with isolated words or is all your data continuous speech? How many tokens of</div><div>each vowel do you aim to measure? And how dense is the vowel space in this language?</div><div><br></div><div>I’d add that it is also necessary to check that the formant extraction is reliable, which requires</div><div>a pretty hands-on examination of the data.</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 31, 2023, at 16:11, Pegi Bakula <pegi@buffalo.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Cat,<div><br></div><div>Without knowing the specifics of your situation, there are plenty of options available for speech recognition. Which one to choose will depend on a number of factors, of course. Two programs that quickly come to mind are the Praat plug-in EasyAlign and the Montreal Forced Aligner. Either one of these can autosegment down to the phone level. I've never tried EasyAlign, but I'd guess as a plug-in it would be fairly straightforward. I have used the MFA, and will admit there is some amount of work that goes into using it... at least for what I'm using it for.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps, though I'm sure there are plenty of people here who can offer better suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Pegi</div></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:13 PM Cat Butz <<a href="mailto:Cat.Butz@hhu.de" target="_blank">Cat.Butz@hhu.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear community,<br>
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The title should be pretty straightforward: I'm writing a grammar and <br>
need to label and plot a bunch of vowel tokens from raw sound files, and <br>
I'm trying to find ways of getting there besides segmenting and <br>
labelling everything by hand, specifically the segmenting part. I'll be <br>
thankful for any advice, no matter how tangential.<br>
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Wishing everyone a beautiful weekend.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
-- <br>
Cat Butz (she/they)<br>
HHU Düsseldorf<br>
General Linguistics<br>
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