Speech Communication
Software Recommended by the Academic Chair
The list contains external links to software we frequently use and recommend to students in our degree programs.
- Software and tools by Prof. Dr. Felix Burkhardt
- Praat: language analysis program
- openSMILE: toolkit to extract audio features
- R: Open Source statistics program
- RStudio: integrated development environment for R
- Matlab: free with the TU Berlin campus license
- VocalTractLab: Articulatory speech synthesis with a 3D articulator model from Prof. Peter Birkholz
Tutorials
On his blog, Prof. Dr. Felix Burkhardt offers tutorials on speech processing:
Web scripts from other universities:
- Praat Tutorial (Uni Leipzig)
- Reading sonagrams (Uni München)
- Acoustic phonetics (Uni München)
- Neurolinguistics (Uni Stuttgart)
Scripts/packages
Below is a list of further useful scripts when working with PRAAT and R:
- Markus Brückl (2021): irrNA: Coefficients of Interrater Reliability – Generalized for Randomly Incomplete Datasets (0.2.2). Comprehensive R Archive Network. [R Package]
- Markus Brückl (2020): praat2pho.
- Markus Brückl (2020): helpEditAndSaveTextGrid. Praat-script to open, edit and save TextGrids.
- Markus Brückl (2018): plotSonaOsciGrid. Praat script to simplify plotting sonagrams, oscillograms, and (IPA) annotations into one picture. [Example PDF]
- Markus Brückl (2017): tremor3.01. Praat script for the computation of 14 measures of (vocal) tremor. (Please refer to the text Brückl (2017) for more detail.)
- Markus Brückl (2013): IPAplotF1F2. Praat-script to simplify plotting vowel symbols into formant charts. [Example PDF, Example data]
- Praat script archive