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TGToolkit Tutorial

This is a Praat plug-in that focuses on TextGrid objects. By using this tool, you can process many TextGrid files with just a few clicks. Through this tutorial, I will show you the basics.

Getting started

The TGToolkit menu is composed of several commands. They are divided in four main categories: Create, Modify, Query and Clean. When you click on any of the plug-in commands, a dialogue box will pop up. Although, these dialogue boxes have some advanced features for searching files within sub-folders or pair of files (audio and TextGrid) in different directories, we will not review them until the advance feature section. For now, we will assume that your audio and TextGrid files are in the same directory.

1. Creating TextGrids from many audio files

Usually, to create a TextGrid from a Sound object, we use Sound: To TextGrid... or Sound: To TextGrid (Silences)... This plug-in provides both commands in the Praat > TGToolkit > Create menu. When you click on any of them, the only difference is that the dialogue box will prompt you to input the directory where your files are located.

As in the image, fill the Folder with Sound files field. The . in the Folder with TextGrid files field means that the TextGrid files are located in the same directory as the sound files. You can also replace the dot . notation with the TexGrid folder directory. Set your TextGrid tiers and run the command.

Finally, you will see that the TextGrid files will be saved in the same directory as the audio files. If a TextGrid already exists in the directory, the plug-in will skip this file, so there is no danger of losing your files!

2. Clean

The commands below this sub-menu focused

Advance features