toneswiper 0.1.0

A tool for manually annotating audio with ToDI-style prosody.

ToneSwiper

Installation

Recommended way of installing as a globally available command, but with its own virtual environment, is as follows. If your system does not have pipx yet (for installing Python programs), you first need to install that, see here.

pipx install git+https://github.com/mwestera/toneswiper

Usage

On the command-line, a typical usage would be to navigate to a folder with one or more .wav-files (cd some/folder/with/wav/files) to be transcribed, and do:

toneswiper *.wav

This will start the gui app to let you annotate the selected sound files. It can be almost exclusively controlled by the keyboard; press F1 to open a help window explaining the keyboard controls.

If your folder also contains .TextGrid files (with names matching the .wav files), as exported from Praat, and/or you want to save your annotations to such files, you can do the following:

🌩 WARNING 🌩 This will modify your .TextGrid files by adding a 'ToDI' tier, and/or modifying it if the tier already exists. It may also destroy your files altogether, so best do this only on a duplicate of your 'real' files.

toneswiper *.wav --textgrid

You can also customize the tier to which the annotations are saved:

toneswiper *.wav --textgrid todi2

For more info, do:

toneswiper --help