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Once I’ve identified a sample of speech sounds that I want to analyze, the next step is to do that analysis. There are obviously many ways to go about this process. Here, I’ll walk through an example of measuring sibilant trajectories with the fantastic praat-parselmouth Python package. It’s my current favorite technique for avoiding Praat scripting. ...

So you want to work with annotated speech? I find many (not all!) purpose-built tools for corpus phonetics to be slow, buggy, inflexible, or incomplete, while simultaneously promising to do way more than I actually need. Building a SQLite database from .TextGrid files ended up being a straightforward solution, and it wasn’t hard to do. Here’s a quick tutorial. ...