PoLaR Annotation

The version 1.0 iteration of the PoLaR annotation guidelines have been completed! They can be found at https://osf.io/hc6pk/.

In addition, there is now a longer PoLaR monograph (which contains the annotation guidelines, along with chapters about background, user-extendability, and some usage scenarios) also available on OSF, at https://osf.io/cj4av/.

This May, at Speech Prosody 2022 in Lisbon, we will offer a tutorial on how to use PoLaR to annotate prosody. For more information, click here.

The PoLaR annotation guidelines have been updated! Version 0.9.8 can be found at https://osf.io/gxhyd/.

New in this version:

• A substantial re-organization of the document into chapters, with guidelines in Chapter 2 (basic labels) and Chapter 3 (advanced labels)

• More discussion of the PoLaR plugin (available on OSF) throughout the guidelines chapters.

• Much more guidance on advanced Ranges labels (including how to handle some more complex phenomena, like English-type downstep).

All sound files in the document have also been updated, alongside labels with both basic labels (https://osf.io/u24xa/) and advanced labels (https://osf.io/dt683/).

The PoLaR annotation guidelines have been updated! Version 0.9.5 can be found at https://osf.io/a6rcm/.

New in this version: clarified guidance on basic labels, updated advanced labels and guidance, and a description of a new Praat script in the appendix.

All sound files in the document have also been uploaded, alongside labels with both basic labels (https://osf.io/upzhn/) and advanced labels (https://osf.io/d4phy/).

Version 0.8 of the PoLaR annotation guidelines is now available!

A PDF of the guidelines can be found at https://osf.io/wbg6e/. In addition, PoLaR annotated sound files and some simple scripts, can be found on at this OSF repository: https://osf.io/usbx5/.

Version 0.8 contains detailed description of how to annotation prosodic characteristics of spoken languages with a basic set of labels, on four tiers (Prosodic Structure, Pitch Points, Scaled Levels, and Range Domains).

Cancelled due to COVID-19

This coming May, at Speech Prosody 2020 in Tokyo, we will offer a 3-hour tutorial on how to use PoLaR to annotate prosody. For more information, click here.