Praat & Scripting (English Version)

Kyuchul Yoon (윤규철) 지음

북(BOOK)귤 2022년 09월 01일 출간

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[ Introduces Praat basics and advanced topics including the Buckeye and Seoul corpus ]

This book deals with everything about Praat. The author, however, does not know everything about it. The more you know, the more you see, as the old saying goes. I wrote it to the best of my knowledge.

During the long years with Praat, I've written many scripts and given many talks and presentations. I collected them all here in this book. I'd be very happy if researchers from a variety of majors could get help. Any errors or mistakes are mine, so please let me know.

This book is just a beginning. A lot of room for improvement, I admit. Since I didn't write it at one sitting, it could be more organized and focused. Let me know via my contact so that I can supplement this book.

Writing about Praat and scripts, I felt that scripting is like cooking a luxury cuisine. Input files are like good ingredients, variables and objects are like containers such as dishes and plates, functions and operators are like cooking utensils, cooking is like running script commands and finished cuisine is like output files.

It could be difficult and boring to beginners, but I tried to be as easy and fun as possible. It's a thick book, but reading from time to time, you could become a scripting expert in no time and feel the joy, just like finishing a delicious cuisine...

I hope that what's in this book would satisfy advanced learners as well as beginners. For beginners, I tried to introduce basic techniques of making a recording and doing analyses and resynthesis, e.g. manipulating pitch and durations. For advanced learners, I tried my best to introduce the basics and advanced topics of Praat scripting with real scripts from my own papers and works and to explain how scripting can help you with your various linguistic works. Lastly, I introduce how you can extract various linguistic information from speech corpora, e.g. the Buckeye corpus and Seoul corpus, using Praat and scripting. Particularly, I open to the public the scripts I used to build the Seoul corpus, which I hope will help you understand that scripting can help you work with a speech corpus.

This book is for people who know the least about computers, such as launching an installed application and handling files in their computer. Don't worry, however, you're not good at computers. I tried to be as kind as possible as if I'm dealing with beginners. Most operating systems are largely divided into Windows and Macs. I wrote this book on my MacOS machine, but I also added descriptions for Windows systems.

Also, I assume that readers have the basic knowledge on phonetics, e.g. a sound file being displayed on a spectrogram as well as on a waveform display. For professional knowledge, consult books on phonetics. Nonetheless, I use some professional terms necessary for our readers to perform tasks related to phonetics and linguistics in general.

The book is organized as three parts. Part A Praat Basics teaches you the basics of Praat and scripts. Part B Praat Advanced encourages you to start writing scripts based on what you learned earlier with sample and real scripts. Part C Praat for Corpus has two areas; Area 1 introduces the Buckeye corpus and Area 2 the Seoul corpus. You learn that Praat and scripts can be useful in your research with speech corpora.

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PART A. PRAAT BASICS
Chapter 1. Introducing Praat for beginners
Chapter 2. Think like computers
Chapter 3. Anatomy of a Praat script
Chapter 4. Attention! Mr./Ms. Forgetful
Chapter 5. The invisible rules the world
Chapter 6. Past histories are important
Chapter 7. Names matter
Chapter 8. Objects are the real deal
Chapter 9. Get the ingredients
Chapter 10. Serve the cuisine
Chapter 11. Put ingredients in the dishes
Chapter 12. Prep ingredients with the tools
Chapter 13. Then what do cooks do?
Chapter 14. Smack the bugs
Chapter 15. Archive for various scripts

PART B. PRAAT ADVANCED
Chapter 1. A simple listening experiment
Chapter 2. Measure reaction times
Chapter 3. Synthesize vowels
Chapter 4. Draw vowel space with formants
Chapter 5. Change vowel formants
Chapter 6. Practice/measure English vowel pronunciation
Chapter 7. Manipulate durations (PSOLA)
Chapter 8. Manipulate pitch (PSOLA)
Chapter 9. Change intensity & normalize
Chapter 10. Clone prosody
Chapter 11. Exaggerate prosody
Chapter 12. Speech synthesizer & ASR labels
Chapter 13. Measure VOTs automatically
Chapter 14. Label sounds semi-automatically
Chapter 15. Use Praat manpages
Chapter 16. Romanize hangul
Chapter 17. Create a talking clock
Chapter 18. Building a pronunciation frequency dictionary
Chapter 19. Wavesurfer .lab to .TextGrid
Chapter 20. Scripts for K-ToBI labeling
Chapter 21. Create a listening exam audio file
Chapter 22. Odds and ends

PART C. PRAAT FOR CORPUS
AREA 1. BUCKEYE CORPUS
Chapter 1. Introduction & downloading
Chapter 2. Converting labels to TextGrids
Chapter 3. Statistics about the corpus
Chapter 4. Search scripts for the corpus
Chapter 5. Building pronunciation dictionary
Chapter 6. Calculating speech rates
Chapter 7. Extracting vowel formants
Chapter 8. Measuring VOTs for stops

AREA 2. SEOUL CORPUS
Chapter 1. Introduction & downloading
Chapter 2. Scripts for building the corpus
Chapter 3. Statistics about the corpus
Chapter 4. Search scripts for the corpus
Chapter 5. Building pronunciation dictionary
Chapter 6. Extracting vowel formants
Chapter 7. Measuring VOTs for stops
Chapter 8. Measuring vowel lengths
Chapter 9. Investigating stops & fricatives

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저자(글) Kyuchul Yoon (윤규철)

저자 윤규철 교수는 현재 영남대학교 영어영문학과 교수로서 음성학 (전산언어학) 전공입니다.