This page contains a collection of tools I've found useful in teaching and research. Check back for updates! Illustrations of the International Phonetic Alphabet & phonological features English phonemic transcription chart for matching symbols across conventionsMaster Phonological Features Chart by Jason RiggleiPA Phonetics: An iOS app for the International Phonetic AlphabetInteractive IPA Chart from the University of Victoria, CanadaThe real-time MRI IPA chart from USC's span groupSeeing Speech MRI IPA chart Interactive map of Illustrations of the IPAUCLA Index of Sounds ArticulatoryIPA YouTube Channel Accents of English from Around the World with audio samples eNunciate! visual language learning toolRhyme Desk: find rhyming words via IPA transcription SoundBar: hear and visualize the articulation of American English sounds Acoustic analysis: Praat tutorials, scripting, and help Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer Mauricio Figueroa's scripting manual & tutorialsthe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Vowels - tutorials & scripting helpPraat scripting manuals Praat Users List NCSU Phonology Lab Script Repository - Praat and morePhonetics on Speed Praat Scripting TutorialPraat Script Collection from Will StylerPraat-based Tools & Common Prosody Platform from Yi XuProZed Praat plugin, for rhythm & tonal aspects of speech Prosogram: Pitch contour stylization based on a tonal perception modelEasyAlign: phonetic alignment with Praat (Windows only) A Tutorial on Extracting Formants in Praat by Joey Stanley ToBI Annotation Environments for Praat & WaveSurfer Praat Scripting Tutorial by Antje Schweitzer Praat Vocal Toolkit - automated scripts for voice processing Parselmouth: a Python library for Praat [article]Praat Tools: plugins for annotation, tokenizing, searching TextGrids, etc. mausmooth, a Praat script for smoothing and extracting f0 contours Draw TextGrid, a plugin for easier visualizations in Praat Matt Winn's Praat Scripts for a wide array of tasks FastTrack, a Praat plugin for fast, accurate, (nearly) automatic formant-tracking Praat manual for musicologists from Wim van der Meer Praat script repository from Henning Reetz Praat scripts from the Universitat de Barcelona SpeCT, the Speech Corpus Toolkit for PraatVisible Vowels tool for plotting vowel spaces in a web browser Automating your transcription and acoustic analysis Corpus Phonetics Tutorial from Elinor Chodroff SPPAS - forced alignment in multiple languages with Praat TextGrid outputWebMAUS - web-based forced alignment software from LMUAutoVOT - automatic voice onset time calculationP2FA and FAVE - software for forced alignment from UPennsyllabify: a tool for syllabifying ARPABET transcriptionsthe Prosodylab-Aligner for automated alignment [prosodylab github]Montreal Forced Aligner for automated alignmentSWIPE' pitch extractor software by Kyle GormanDARLA - automated vowel formant extractionKaldi ASR - a toolkit for speech recognitionFormant Editor - a tool for improving formant-based analysesEMU-webApp - label, visualize, and correct speech and derived speech data semiauto - plugin to improve efficiency of working in Praatpraatalign: a plugin for interactive forced alignment VoiceSauce - Matlab-based tool for voice quality analysis UW CLOx - web-based automatic transcription tool [MacOS Version]Gentle - a robust yet lenient forced aligner CREPE pitch tracker based on deep learning DDKtor: software package for automatic measurement of VOT & vowels Phonet toolkit for computing posterior probabilities of phonological classes from audio LDC Broad Phonetic Class Speech Activity Detector for segmentation R resources the R project R Studio - an excellent GUI for R (install both R and R Studio)the vowels package for R and its web-based NORM interfacethe phonR package for normalization, etc. in R (new version!) the phonTools package for Rggplot2: make beautiful plots in R! [top 50 ggplot2 visualizations]plyr: transform & summarize your data easily & automaticallyPraatR: access Praat from R by Aaron Albinreadtextgrid: a package to read Praat TextGrids into R, by Tristan Mahr stat-ellipse: plot ellipses, e.g. around points in a vowel chart (requires other packages)Rbrul, a tool for analyzing variation in linguistic dataSWIPE' for R: pitch extraction by Aaron Albinplot spectrograms in R by Aaron AlbinSummary of Basic Statistical Tests in R from Stephanie ShihtuneR: analysis of music and speech phonfieldwork package for phonetic fieldwork research and experiments (cf. Sound Viewer)speakr: an R-based wrapper for Praat, by Stefano Coretta Generalized Additive (Mixed-Effects) Models in R: GAM(M) tutorials by Márton Sóskuthy and Marissa Barlaz Tools for transcription, data acquisition, management & analysisLinguistics Methods Hub [in development] Open SLR: Open Speech & Language ResourcesPhonological CorpusTools (github) - "Take the stress out of corpus analysis!"Speech Corpus Tools - an application for interacting with large datasetsLaBB-CAT, a repository for time-aligned audio & transcriptsPhon: database management for audio corpora EMU-SDMS: database management & searching of audio corporaBavarian Archive for Speech Signals: tools for acoustic analysis{Deep} Phonetic Tools - machine learning applied to acoustic analysisTranscriber, a tool for labeling, segmenting & transcribing speechBerkeley Phonetics Machine, a VM with software for doing phonetics already installedFESTIVAL code snippets for speech synthesisLanguage Markup and Experimental Design Software, a web-based platformPolyglot DB, a Python package for storing and querying large speech corporaELAN, linguistic annotation software PennController software for online experiments IPAtranscriptor, a Python tool for IPA transcription, suitable for blind users [JIPA article]FindingFive platform for online behavioral research STRAIGHT, a speech analysis, modification and synthesis systemTranscriptor fonológico multidialectal del español Phonological databases, tools, & corporaLAPSyD, the Lyon-Albuquerque Phonological Systems DatabaseUPSID, an online version of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory DatabaseSouth American Phonological Inventory Database, from UC BerkeleyPHOIBLE Online - a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory dataUMD's Langscape: a portal to language diversityNIM, a "stimuli search engine" for psycholinguistics (Eng, Cat, Esp)UD Phonology Lab Stress Pattern Database - with Finite State utilitylearnLexicalConstraints, an online learner with lexically-specific phonological constraintsLanguage Variation Suite for variationist quantitative data analysisIPhOD: the Irvine Phonotactic Online DictionaryWorld Phonotactics Database of over 4000 languages Phonotactic Probability Calculator maintained by Michael VitevitchLanguage Goldmine - databases & datasets (not just PhPh)Experigen - an online experiment platform Spoken-language corpora (not exhaustive!) SpeechBox, a web-based system for a large set of digital speech corporaDynamic Dialects accent database with video speech samples Atlas sonore des langues régionales de France - the North Wind and the Sun in many varietiesBlog post on prosodically annotated corpora, focusing on English Corpus of Regional African American Language, at the University of Oregon Online Resources for African American Language, at the University of Oregon Microcontact: Italian dialects spoken in the AmericasDoReCo: Language Documentation Reference Corpus General phonetics & phonology resources Phonetics Resources & Tutorials from the International Phonetic Association Indiana University Phonetics Lab - an enormous compilation of resourcesJen Smith's phonetics page Cristian DiCanio's resources and scriptsVal Systems: Josef Fruehwald's blogVocalTractLab: speech production demos & morePink Trombone: online voice synthesizerSounds of Speech: speech articulation tutorial, with app Interactive Sagittal Section by Daniel Currie Hall eSpeak text to speech synthesizer MBROLA - "Towards a Freely Available Multilingual Speech Synthesizer" WaveSurfer - open-source tool for sound visualization & manipulationFalaBrasil recognition & synthesis tools for Brazilian Portuguese WASP2 - Waveform, Annotations, Spectrogram & Pitch Unix resources Ken Church's Unix for Poets AWK cheat sheet - one-liners & other goodiesUsing BASH, sed & awk for your language analysis - tutorial document Using the IPA on your computerin Windows: Microsoft Word supports IPA symbols. Try Insert --> Symbol.in Mac OS: Install an IPA keyboard or use Charis SIL.No time to install? Type IPA phonetic symbols.Point and click IPA keyboard from Weston Ruter Lexilogos IPA: multilingual keyboard Just for fun Chrome Music Lab - Spectrogram: Colorful, multidimensional, animated visualizations of sound.Virtual Oscilloscope: visualize live sound inputGlyph: a game to investigate the shapes of letters Linguacuisine: learn a language while cooking a recipe! Gramle: a spectrogram decoding game in the spirit of Wordle.
