Software and resources
We have a large collection of industry standard audio, video, statistics, analytics and perception commercial software available in the Labs.
Software creations
- iPA Phonetics for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- iSLR for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- Yati for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- Tłı̨chǫ Yati Multimedia Online Web Dictionary
Other resources for UVic students
- Multimedia IPA chart
- IPA Handbook
- PDBLive!
- Voice quality matrix
- Acoustic Phonetics Lab Manual (Praat) - Revised (2015) Edition
Scripts
Useful E-prime scripts are available through the STEP project at Carnegie Mellon University.
A number of Praat scripts can be downloaded by following the links below.
| File | Description |
| downsample.praat | Downsamples a folder of Wavefiles to 22K. |
| draw-waveform-sgram-f0.praat | Draws waveform, spectrogram, F0 curve and TextGrid. |
| get-formant.praat | Extracts formant (F1, F2) values from Formant files. |
| GetVowelFormants_script.praat | Measure vowel formant at onset and 1/2 way through a vowel. |
| get-values-tones.praat | Extracts time points, f0 values and durations : to text file. |
| label-tones.praat | Creates a TextGrid file with a number of tiers. |
| MeasurementScript_inEditor.praat | Measures and extracts time points and F0 values. |
| NSP2WAV.praat | Changes a folder of NSP files to WAV. |
| openwaveandcreatetextgrid.praat | Opens a folder of WAVfiles and creates a Textgrid for each. |
| openandsaveorcreattextandwav.praat | Opens a folder of WAVfiles with existing Textgrids (or creates a Textgrid if none exists for a given WAVfile.) |
| OpenExistingWavsandTextgrids.praat | Opens pairs of Waves and Textgrids in a folder. |
| QV_tokeninfo.praat | Takes duration and formant measurements (multiple tiers) for a given WAV/TEXTGRID pair. |
| textgrid-creator.praat | Given a plain text file containing sentences by the line, the script tokenizes each sentence based on the word-boundary symbol. |
| ToManipulation_PRE_script.praat | Creates a dip in the pre-glottalized resonants. |