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Praat on the Web

Web implementation of the extension of Praat for feature annotation also available for local use and downloadable separately from the following repository https://github.com/monikaUPF/featureAnnotationforPraat.

A tutorial on the use of the basic functions of the web implementation of Praat for feature annotations is available in the following link https://youtu.be/sJXu15Dskjs

The link to the web application was http://kristina.taln.upf.edu/praatweb/ and it is described in our publication (Domínguez et al. 2016). There has been a migration of the web to https://langwiki.org/praatweb/index.jsp

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Content

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This repository includes source code and documentation.

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Specifications

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The application uses the MVC pattern with Java servlet model and is mainly developed in Java, JSP with style sheets and JavaScript. Using the following existent external libraries:

• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• wavesurfer.js
• Sortable

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Folder Structure

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PraatWeb folder includes two subdirectories:

• src/edu/upf/dtic: contains all Java files divided in servlets and classes folders
• WebContent: contains all JSP, style sheets and JavaScript files, plus several folders:
  • images: pictures used in the web
  • META-INF: the MANIFEST.MF file
  • samples: audio and TextGrid files used as samples in the web
  • scripts: all the Praat scripts used in the web demos
  • tmp: empty folder used to temporary save the content generated via web by the users
  • WEB-INF: web.xml file

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References and Citation

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If you use this software and/or modify the code please cite the following publication:

• Domínguez, M., I. Latorre, M. Farrús, J. Codina and L. Wanner (2016). Praat on the Web: An Upgrade of Praat for Semi-Automatic Speech Annotation. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Osaka, Japan.