The phoneme menu

This menu handles the management of the phonetic labels of the speech files which labels are displayed in the phoneme window above the spectrogram and are made up of phonemes and limits separating or demarcating the phonemes from each other.

The menu commands:

Read:For reading the phonetic labels file. A panel is opened for an eventual user specification of the file format.

Save as:For saving the phonetic labels file.

Search a phoneme: For searching for all the occurrences of a phoneme indicated in text form by the user in the current phonetic labels file.

Explore directory: To set off a search for one or sequence of phonemes in each of the files of a directory. A panel is presented the user to specify the sequence of phonemes to search for, the directory, speech and phoneme file extensions and format. As for the extensions and directories, they are presented in a panel for the user to choose the model file with the right directory and suffix. File names entered in the dialog window open by clicking the “modify domain” button are considered as a profile to specify the directory and the extension of the files to be explored. When using WAVE files annotated with WinSnoori the format is not taken into account because these files contain both the signal and the annotations. The occurrences found are displayed in a notepad window.

Mouse Help: Displays a mini help of how to use the mouse to modify limits and phonemes in the phoneme window.

The phoneme window editor: The user can insert phonemes into the phoneme window and modify them using the mouse. The functions available for doing so are as follows:

Add a boundary: Click on the selected point while maintaining pressed down the CONTROL KEY.

Move a boundary: Press on the left button on the selected boundary or near it while maintaining pressed down the CAPS key and moving the mouse to the target point.

Delete a boundary: To delete a boundary, click on the boundary while maintaining pressed down the CONTROL and CAPS keys

Add a phoneme: To add a phoneme, double click on the selected point. A menu appears from which to choose the desired phoneme. The double click with the left button opens a hierarchical popup menu while the double click with the right button opens a dialog window which contains all the existing phonemes.

Modify a phoneme: same as above.

Delete a phoneme: Same as above. Choose “none”.