Importing phonetic symbols from Praat TextGrid
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Importing phonetic symbols from Praat TextGrid
Hi!
When I tried to import a Praat TextGrid to ELAN, the tiers were imported successfully. BUT: All those annotations made in Praat that consisted of phonetic symbols - e.g. <ɛ>; - appeared not in this manner, but the way I
had originally had to input them in Praat -e.g. \ef for ɛ -.
Any suggestions how to fix that? Or is my only chance to redo all the phonetic annotations in ELAN itself?
Thanks four your help,
Mirjam
[This is a copy of a message I published some days ago as a reply to a thread from 3 years ago. As I was not sure if those messages are still followed, I've decided to open another thread.]
Re: Importing phonetic symbols from Praat TextGrid
The import function does convert some of Praat's special symbols, but the list is incomplete and\or out-of-date. Anyway (most of) the phonetic symbols are currently not converted. We'll add updating the list to our to do list. In the meantime you could use the "Convert entire TextGrid to Unicode" from the Edit menu in Praat's Editor window and then save the file again.
This procedure might be the better option anyway, but if you have a lot of existing TextGrid files this can still be quite a bit of work (unless you can script it). But, no doubt this will be faster than redoing the phonetic annotations in ELAN.
-Han
PS Our current forum software doesn't send a notification of follow up messages (or any other posts), therefore it is very difficult to respond to messages posted to an older thread. This will hopefully be fixed soon, when we switch to other software for our website.
Re: Importing phonetic symbols from Praat TextGrid
It worked the way you told me!!!
Thanks a lot :)
Mirjam
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
