creapy: a Python-based tool for the detection of creak in conversational speech
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- Sat, Jul 01, 2023
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The annotation of creaky voice is relevant for various linguistic topics, from phonological analyses to the investigation of turn-taking, but manual annotation is a time-consuming process. In this paper, we present creapy, a Python-based tool to detect creaky intervals in speech signals. creapy does not require prior phonetic segmentation and supports the export of Praat TextGrid files, allowing for manual revision of the automatically labelled intervals. creapy was developed and tested using Austrian German conversational speech. It was optimised for recall to facilitate a semi-automatic annotation process, and it achieved a better performance for men’s (recall: .79) than for women’s voices (recall: .60).
This work by Michael Paierl and Thomas Röck is accepted for presentation at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – ICPhS 2023.
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