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Pseudo forced alignment using a Praat script

It is very common for phoneticians to ask speakers to read aloud word lists, especially in the field. However, to find a word in a long sound file is very painful and a better solution is to split the long sound file into short files with meaningful file names. I wrote a Praat script for that purpose and to save some time, I also use the script to fill in the transcriptions to the TextGrid file. This post is a documentation of the script, which can be found in my github.

How I make a linguistic handout

Making a linguistic handout needs some tricks. Using MS word is not ideal because the output is not that beautiful and linguistic contents are not . In this post I explain how I make a linguistic handout with markdown and of course LaTeX. The workflow I usually write documents using markdown and convert it to pdf using pandoc, as explained in my previous posts. I have a same head/template for all handouts, so that the style remains the same for a course. I use different LaTeX packages to format various linguistic contents.

Export and import pdf bookmarks

It is sometimes useful to export and import the bookmarks of an existing pdf file to a new pdf file with smaller size. This can be easily done using pdftk. pdftk is available as GUI and commandline tools. In MacOS, it is better to use it in the terminal. After installation of pdftk, the bookmarks of one pdf file can be extracted from an existing pdf file and imported to a new pdf file using the following lines.