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So you want to work with annotated speech? I find many (not all!) purpose-built tools for corpus phonetics to be slow, buggy, inflexible, or incomplete, while simultaneously promising to do way more than I actually need. Building a SQLite database from .TextGrid files ended up being a straightforward solution, and it wasn’t hard to do. Here’s a quick tutorial. ...

I’m working on a project with a somewhat tricky analysis, and had hit a wall. I didn’t want to just figure the analysis out as I went, for fear of baking researcher bias into the results, but also wasn’t sure if the half-baked analysis would actually answer the question. Enter data simulation, a.k.a. something I should have done a long time ago. ...