praatpicture(sound = "welcome.wav")
The problem
Generating elegant dataviz for spectrogram/waveforms can be cumbersome. Praat has excellent plotting capabilities, but can be rather difficult to teach, especially if you want to plot the waveform/spectrogram/textgrid combination. I posted on the topic a long time ago for a solution in R, and this post is an update of sorts, particularly for those not interested in working in Praat directly.
The solution
Rasmus Puggaard-Rode’s fantastic package praatpicture makes the process trivial. Assume we have a wav file called welcome.wav and the corresponding textgrid welcome.TextGrid. We can plot the wavform/spectrogram/textgrid combination with a simple call to praatpicture():
I won’t go through all of the capabilities of the package (the documentation is great), but here are a few of my common use cases.
praatpicture(
sound = "welcome.wav",
spec_freqRange = c(0, 4900),
frames = c('sound', 'spectrogram', 'TextGrid'),
formant_plotOnSpec = TRUE,
formant_color = '#cc0033'
)
praatpicture(
sound = "welcome.wav",
spec_freqRange = c(0, 4900),
frames = c('spectrogram'),
spec_color = c(
'darkblue', 'blue', 'cyan', 'yellow', 'orange', 'brown', '#cc0033')
)
praatpicture(
sound = "welcome.wav",
spec_freqRange = c(0, 4900),
frames = 'spectrogram',
spec_color = c("white", scales::pal_brewer(palette = "Reds")(9))
)
praatpicture(
sound = "welcome.wav",
spec_freqRange = c(0, 4900),
frames = 'spectrogram',
spec_color = c(viridis::viridis_pal(option = "B")(8), "#cc0033")
)
Reproducibility information
This document was written in quarto.
Session info
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date 2024-04-18
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