praatfig

(Work in progress)

This repository offers scripts with elaborated instruction to help phoneticians (from beginner level) learn how to produce high quality figures on Praat (instead of taking screenshot from Praat's window).

Installation

• Obviously, Praat software is required. Find the latest version at http://www.praat.org.

praatfig assumes that the user already has some basic knowledge of Praat. For example: open and save objects, view and edit audio file, creat TextGrid file and make annotation, etc.

• Save as .eps is highly recommended although there are also other options such as: .png, .pdf, or .prapic (praat picture). This format allows editing text of image (replace the current text with your desired text or delete them). It helps to clean up some details of the figure which are much more complicated to deal with by script. In order to carry on this stuff, we need 2 supporting softwares:

  • A plain text editor such as Notepad++ for openning and manual editing the output figure.
  • A tool for viewing the .eps figure. Free software includes Eps viewer. (Note that EPS files cannot be displayed in this interface (GitHub), hence the use of .png or .jpg files for screen display.)

EPS is a file extension for a graphics file format used in vector-based images in Adobe Illustrator. EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript. It may contain 2D vector graphics, bitmap images, and text.

General instruction

A rule-of-thumb order of the script for plotting an object

• Clear history
• Loading data
• Choosing the position (There are two options: Select outer viewport or Select inner viewport)
• Selecting object: spectrogram/ audio sound/ pitch/ formants, etc
• Drawing the objects with details
• Setting axes and legends
• Save the file as .eps/ .pdf/ .png

Let's start

Script #1: Simple script for beginner

See this folder if you wish to be able to produce a figure like this:

Script #2: Adding f0 and Oq values caculated by Peakdet

This script was used to creat figures for my ICPhS-2019 paper.

See this folder if you wish to be able to produce a figure like this:

Script #3: An advanced script by Francisco Torreira

See this folder if you wish to be able to produce a figure like this:

Comments, suggestions, question, etc.

If you have a bug or an idea, please submit an issue to MinhChauNGUYEN/praatfig or contact me by email: minhchau.ntm@gmail.com

References

1. For further information of Praat Picture and so on, visit: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Picture_window.html