21.3735, Software: Prosody Research Tools Available

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Subject: 21.3735, Software: Prosody Research Tools Available

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Date: 15-Sep-2010
From: Yi Xu < yi.xu at ucl.ac.uk >
Subject: Prosody Research Tools Available
 

	
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:08:45
From: Yi Xu [yi.xu at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Prosody Research Tools Available

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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 at ucl.ac.uk 
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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