Introducing Parselmouth: A Python Interface to Praat

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titleIntroducing Parselmouth: A Python Interface to Praat
start_date2017/07/13
schedule14h
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summaryData analysis in the phonetic sciences typically relies upon the functionality of Paul Boersma's Praat program, an extensive software package which has been used by phoneticians for more than two decades. We have very recently released the initial version of Parselmouth, a Python interface for Praat (see https://github.com/YannickJadoul/Parselmouth). While Parselmouth aims to be an intuitive and elegant Python library, it also allows Python code to very efficiently access the results of Praat calculations. In this presentation, I will present a number of hands-on examples of Python code to demonstrate Parselmouth's access to Praat's vast inventory of speech processing algorithms and how they can be integrated with the existing Python libraries for e.g. plotting, reading csv-files, machine learning algorithms. In return, I would love to hear more about the specific needs of speech scientists, setting priorities and steering future development of the library in a community-driven way.
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