Plugin for Praat allowing auto-segmentation: automatically creates tiers of IPA utterances, words, syllables and phonemes based on a text file and a sound file.
EasyAlign was written by jeanphilippegoldman@gmail.com (2007-2011)
EasyAlignIPA version with Hebrew support by evyaco@gmail.com for OmiLab veredsilber@gmail.com (2022). For using this version see a video manual (English or Hebrew) and visit the project's page.
Simple Manual:
You will need a sound file and a transcription text file divided to lines; 8each line represents an utterance. The text must be represented in IPA.
- Open -> Read strings from raw text file... and choose the text file.
- Open -> Read from file... and choose the sound file.
- Select both files in Praat's objects list
- Praat -> EasyAlignIPA -> Macro-segmentation...
- View the sound and the new textgrid (together) and fix the utterances borders if needed.
- Select the sound file and the textgrid
- Praat -> EasyAlignIPA -> Phone segmentation...
- View the sound and the textgrid and fix the words/syllables/phonemes tiers if needed.
The work described here has been funded by the Research Authority of The Open University of Israel, grant 41459.
Please cite:
Silber-Varod, V., E. Cohen, I. Strull, E. G. Cohen (2023). A Catalogue of the Hebrew Sounds, ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity, July 10-14 2023, Graz, Austria.
More reading:
Vered Silber-Varod, Evan Cohen, Evyatar Cohen, Inbar Strull, Vered Aharonson. (manuscript). Towards a Public Segment Catalogue of Spoken Hebrew.