speach 0.1a5

a Python library for managing, annotating, and converting natural language corpuses using popular formats (CoNLL, ELAN, Praat, CSV, JSON, SQLite, VTT, Audacity, TTL, TIG, ISF)

speach

Speach (formerly texttaglib), is a Python 3 library for managing, annotating, and converting natural language corpuses using popular formats (CoNLL, ELAN, Praat, CSV, JSON, SQLite, VTT, Audacity, TTL, TIG, ISF, etc.)

Main functions are:

• Text corpus management
• Manipuling ELAN transcription files directly in ELAN Annotation Format (eaf)
• TIG - A human-friendly intelinear gloss format for linguistic documentation
• Multiple storage formats (text, CSV, JSON, SQLite databases)

Useful Links

• Speach documentation: https://speach.readthedocs.io/
• Soure code: https://github.com/neocl/speach/

Installation

Speach is availble on PyPI.

pip install speach

ELAN support

Speach can be used to extract annotations as well as metadata from ELAN transcripts, for example:

from speach import elan

# Test ELAN reader function in speach
eaf = elan.open_eaf('./test/data/test.eaf')

# accessing tiers & annotations
for tier in eaf:
    print(f"{tier.ID} | Participant: {tier.participant} | Type: {tier.type_ref}")
    for ann in tier:
        print(f"{ann.ID.rjust(4, ' ')}. [{ann.from_ts} :: {ann.to_ts}] {ann.text}")

Speach also provides command line tools for processing EAF files.

# this command converts an eaf file into csv
python -m speach eaf2csv input_elan_file.eaf -o output_file_name.csv

Read Speach documentation for more information.