Praaline: Integrating Tools for Speech Corpus Research

International audience This paper presents Praaline, an open-source software system for managing, annotating, analysing and visualising speech corpora. Researchers working with speech corpora are often faced with multiple tools and formats, and they need to work with ever-increasing amounts of data...

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Main Author: Christodoulides, George
Other Authors: Institut Langage et Communication (ILC), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2014
Subjects:
corpus management
corpus annotation
data analysis and visualisation
Speech Processing
[INFO.INFO-SE]Computer Science [cs]/Software Engineering [cs.SE]
[INFO.INFO-DB]Computer Science [cs]/Databases [cs.DB]
[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics
[INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing
Iceland
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01703476
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01703476/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01703476/file/2014%20Christodoulides%20-%20Praaline%20%28LREC2014,%20paper%201078%29.pdf
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Summary:International audience This paper presents Praaline, an open-source software system for managing, annotating, analysing and visualising speech corpora. Researchers working with speech corpora are often faced with multiple tools and formats, and they need to work with ever-increasing amounts of data in a collaborative way. Praaline integrates and extends existing time-proven tools for spoken corpora analysis (Praat, Sonic Visualiser and a bridge to the R statistical package) in a modular system, facilitating automation and reuse. Users are exposed to an integrated, user-friendly interface from which to access multiple tools. Corpus metadata and annotations may be stored in a database, locally or remotely, and users can define the metadata and annotation structure. Users may run a customisable cascade of analysis steps, based on plug-ins and scripts, and update the database with the results. The corpus database may be queried, to produce aggregated data-sets. Praaline is extensible using Python or C++ plug-ins, while Praat and R scripts may be executed against the corpus data. A series of visualisations, editors and plug-ins are provided. Praaline is free software, released under the GPL license.

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