SLAAP Tools

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NORM: The Vowel Normalization and Plotting Suite The online tool for sociophonetic vowel normalization. Erik R. Thomas and Tyler Kendall (2007)

Meanwhile, as a part of the SLAAP development process, I have also built a number of web-based tools and back-end scripts. Some of these are available here.

These tools should be considered "in beta" and come with no warranty. Apologies if they don't work for your specific files. That said, please let me know if you encounter problems or have suggestions for improvement.

• Convert TextGrid transcripts to readable text

  NC SLAAP converts Praat TextGrid files to database entries that are then viewable in a number of hopefully pleasant and helpful ways. This public tool converts TextGrids into html-formatted, readable files without needing the NC SLAAP software. It also generates tab-delimited text files that you can download and open in Excel or a word-processor. For fuller details, view the praat_to_text page. [ Added: 12/06/2006; Last Mod: 5/2/2008 ]

• Convert Transcriber transcript files (.trs format) to Praat TextGrids (.TextGrid format)

  I have developed the perl script used here to automatically convert from the XML-based standard Transcriber format (.trs) to a Praat TextGrid format. Once converted, Transcriber generated transcripts can be better temporally aligned to the audio using Praat (e.g., allowing for accurate representation of utterance overlap). For fuller details, view the trans_to_praat page. [ Added: 7/25/2006; Last Mod: 5/2/2008 ]

• Convert Santa Barbara Corpus transcript files (.trn format) to Praat TextGrids (.TextGrid format)

  This tool converts transcripts from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (.trn format) into Praat TextGrids. Once converted, the Santa Barbara Corpus transcripts can be opened directly in Praat along with their audio files. For fuller details, view the sbc_to_praat page. [ Added: 5/7/2008; Last Mod: 5/7/2008 ]