In this tutorial, I will show you
- how to use forced-aligners,
- how to bulk-process textgrid files using the rPraat package in R.
I will introduce two types of aligners: the general purpose aligners (e.g., the Montreal Forced Aligner) and an aligner for aligning Voice Onset Time (i.e, AutoVOT).
I am going to show you how to do grapheme-to-phoneme alignment on corpus data. Based on the autovot.praat script shipped with the AutoVOT plugin, I created a Praat script called autovot_bulk.praat to help measure VOTs of multiple audio files.
The handout (the pdf file) was prepared for students who have just started doing speech analysis.