jalalal-tamimi/praat-voicing-detection

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The script "VUV_Computations_v4.praat" provides an automated method to detect voicing based on a sound file. A TextGrid can be used as well and the results of the voicing detection will be merged to the original TextGrid. An example of original TextGrid and Sound file are provided in addition to a new TextGrid with extension "_VUV".

See the following references for more details on the method:

• Al-Tamimi, J., & Khattab, G. (2015). "Acoustic cue weighting in the singleton vs geminate contrast in Lebanese Arabic: The case of fricative consonants". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 344–360.
• Al-Tamimi, J. and Khattab, G., (2018). Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops. Invited manuscript for the special issue of Journal of Phonetics, "Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World’s Languages" (eds., T. Cho, G. Docherty & D. Whalen)." Vol: 71, pp. 306-325. doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.010