This notebook can be used to retrieve transcripts from YouTube videos, search in the transcripts for specific words and phrases, extract the audio corresponding to the searched-for utterance(s), and align the transcript excerpts with the audio.
Acoustic and prosodic properties of the aligned excerpts (formant frequencies, pitch, timing phenomenona, etc.) can then be analyzed and visualized using Parselmouth-Praat.
The notebook can be run in the linked Colab environment or on a local machine.
phonetics_pipeline_v3.ipynb is the updated version, as of March 2024.
For more information, see Coats, Steven. (2023). A pipeline for the large-scale acoustic analysis of streamed content. In Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, and Ines Pisetta (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2023), 51–54. Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache.