syllabify-textgrids

Using R and Python to syllabify Praat textgrids, using a syllabification algorithm fit for English

Usage

Load up syllabify.R in your favorite R environment to use this tool.

The R script depends on three things

1. syllabify-core.py in the same directory
   • This is the syllabification algorithm for English, as found at https://github.com/kylebgorman/syllabify
2. .Textgrid files in a folder called input/ in the same directory
3. those TextGrids MUST have a "Words" tier and a "Phones" tier, with the "Phones" tier containing ARPABET transcriptions
   • (ARPABET Phones can be added through a forced aligner like the Montreal Forced Aligner: https://montreal-forced-aligner.readthedocs.io/)

The R script then creates two things

1. modified textgrids in a subdirectory called syllabified/
2. an R dataframe called syllableDF that contains all the syllable information

License

Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license