INTERSPEECH 2011 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Florence, Italy August 27-31. 2011

Prosody Toolkit: Integrating HTK, Praat and WEKA

S. Thomas Christie, Serguei Pakhomov

University of Minnesota, USA

A major hurdle in computational speech analysis is the effective integration of available tools originally developed for purposes unrelated to each other. We present a Python-based tool to enable an efficient and organized processing workflow incorporating automatic speech recognition using HTK, phoneme-level prosodic feature extraction in Praat and machine learning in WEKA. Our system is extensible, customizable and organizes prosodic data by phoneme and time stamp in a tabular fashion in preparation for analysis using other utilities. Plotting of prosodic information is supported to enable visualization of prosodic features.

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Bibliographic reference.  Christie, S. Thomas / Pakhomov, Serguei (2011): "Prosody toolkit: integrating HTK, praat and WEKA", In INTERSPEECH-2011, 3321-3322.