Introducing Parselmouth: A Python interface to Praat

• Published in: Journal of phonetics Vol. 71; pp. 1 - 15
• Main Authors: Jadoul, Yannick, Thompson, Bill, de Boer, Bart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-11-2018
• Subjects: Acoustics; Data analysis; Phonetics; Praat; Python; Software; Phonetics; Data analysis; Acoustics; Software; Praat; Python
• ISSN: 0095-4470; 1095-8576
• DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2018.07.001

•Parselmouth makes Praat functionality available in Python.•This allows usage of sophisticated acoustic analyses in this programming language.•We provide simple tutorial examples on visualisation and file-system integration.•We also provide an example using Parselmouth to execute a Praat analysis in PsychoPy.•This demonstrates the potential use of Praat and Parselmouth for dynamic experiments.
This paper introduces Parselmouth, an open-source Python library that facilitates access to core functionality of Praat in Python, in an efficient and programmer-friendly way. We introduce and motivate the package, and present simple usage examples. Specifically, we focus on applications in data visualisation, file manipulation, audio manipulation, statistical analysis, and integration of Parselmouth into a Python-based experimental design for automated, in-the-loop manipulation of acoustic data. Parselmouth is available athttps://github.com/YannickJadoul/Parselmouth.