Praat TextGrid to MBROLA
synthesiser format converter

Dafydd Gibbon, 2008-08-12

Example TextGrid. Notes:

The phoneme notation in the Praat annotation should correspond to the phoneme notation in the MBROLA voice you intend to use.
MBROLA requires silent segments to be annoted with '_' (underscore). However, Praat apparently does not permit the use of underscore, so silent segments should
1. either be annotated with some other convention, and replaced by '_' in the TextGrid file before conversion,
2. or be annoted with 'SIL', which will be automatically replaced by '_'.
If you find errors, they may be due to special symbols in the labels. If you suspect this, please replace the special symbols, and let me know which symbol s were involved.
After testing this example (based for the 'en1' MBROLA voice), delete the example, then copy and paste your own).

File type = "ooTextFile"
Object class = "TextGrid"

xmin = 0 
xmax = 2.0428256264654876 
tiers? <exists> 
size = 1 
item []: 
    item [1]:
        class = "IntervalTier" 
        name = "Phonemes" 
        xmin = 0 
        xmax = 2.0428256264654876 
        intervals: size = 26 
        intervals [1]:
            xmin = 0 
            xmax = 0.11039242196294866 
            text = "SIL" 
        intervals [2]:
            xmin = 0.11039242196294866 
            xmax = 0.16149885887873244 
            text = "@" 
        intervals [3]:
            xmin = 0.16149885887873244 
            xmax = 0.2532038671762137 
            text = "t" 
        intervals [4]:
            xmin = 0.2532038671762137 
            xmax = 0.39199921357523804 
            text = "aI" 
        intervals [5]:
            xmin = 0.39199921357523804 
            xmax = 0.4383293478828678 
            text = "g" 
        intervals [6]:
            xmin = 0.4383293478828678 
            xmax = 0.4832265914387152 
            text = "@" 
        intervals [7]:
            xmin = 0.4832265914387152 
            xmax = 0.48933271300673287 
            text = "n" 
        intervals [8]:
            xmin = 0.48933271300673287 
            xmax = 0.5443632635147627 
            text = "@" 
        intervals [9]:
            xmin = 0.5443632635147627 
            xmax = 0.5958442591022449 
            text = "m" 
        intervals [10]:
            xmin = 0.5958442591022449 
            xmax = 0.7209599723187308 
            text = "aU" 
        intervals [11]:
            xmin = 0.7209599723187308 
            xmax = 0.7945150309102255 
            text = "s" 
        intervals [12]:
            xmin = 0.7945150309102255 
            xmax = 0.8179189131893374 
            text = "w" 
        intervals [13]:
            xmin = 0.8179189131893374 
            xmax = 0.8489648794779553 
            text = "@" 
        intervals [14]:
            xmin = 0.8489648794779553 
            xmax = 0.9234751985706382 
            text = "w" 
        intervals [15]:
            xmin = 0.9234751985706382 
            xmax = 1.0112605551021663 
            text = "O:" 
        intervals [16]:
            xmin = 1.0112605551021663 
            xmax = 1.0480380843979136 
            text = "k" 
        intervals [17]:
            xmin = 1.0480380843979136 
            xmax = 1.0897139392043054 
            text = "I" 
        intervals [18]:
            xmin = 1.0897139392043054 
            xmax = 1.152161479027432 
            text = "N" 
        intervals [19]:
            xmin = 1.152161479027432 
            xmax = 1.1980139830844676 
            text = "I" 
        intervals [20]:
            xmin = 1.1980139830844676 
            xmax = 1.2473319222156012 
            text = "n" 
        intervals [21]:
            xmin = 1.2473319222156012 
            xmax = 1.3216841834573212 
            text = "@" 
        intervals [22]:
            xmin = 1.3216841834573212 
            xmax = 1.4601969561296162 
            text = "f" 
        intervals [23]:
            xmin = 1.4601969561296162 
            xmax = 1.6066893738181334 
            text = "i:" 
        intervals [24]:
            xmin = 1.6066893738181334 
            xmax = 1.7466350372422106 
            text = "l" 
        intervals [25]:
            xmin = 1.7466350372422106 
            xmax = 1.9157161459525294 
            text = "d" 
        intervals [26]:
            xmin = 1.9157161459525294 
            xmax = 2.0428256264654876 
            text = "SIL"

Praat TextGrid to MBROLAsynthesiser format converter

Praat TextGrid to MBROLA
synthesiser format converter