Making Text Grids for TOBI Labeling in Praat - Basesproduced.com

7. There is also a low boundary tone (L%) at the end of the utterance. Insert thattone by clicking at the end of the utterance and then making a new "L%" label inthe tones tier.You should now have two labels in the tones tier:

8. Inserting labels into the words tier works slightly differently. Let's start off byclicking on the boundary between the first two words in the utterance, "he" and"was":Now click on the circle at the top of the words tier. The area in the tier followingthe marker should turn yellow:Click on the portion of the words tier that precedes the marker you've insertedinto it. That will turn yellow, too. Now you can type the appropriate word labelinto it.

You can insert a label for the second word, "was", by clicking at the boundarybetween the words "was" and "nominated" further down in the waveform:Note that it's possible to move a boundary label on a tier by simply clicking on itand moving it back and forth.It is also possible to remove a bounday altogether by highlighting it, then clickingon the "boundary" tab at the top of the window and selecting "remove".

9. Inserting break indices into the breaks tier works the same way as insertingtones into the tones tier did, since they are both "point tiers". Go ahead andinsert the appropriate break indices into the breaks tier—a "1" for the breaksbetween words, and a "4" for the break at the end of the utterance:To do so, it may help to click on the boundaries and tone labels you've alreadyinserted into the tones and words tier.10. You're all done! To exercise your new TOBI labeling skills, you can try yourhand at transcribing the Exercise Set #1 files here:https://webdisk.ucalgary.ca/~swinters/public_html/ling441/TOBIlab.html11. Once you’re done making text grids for those example files, you should e-mail them to me at swinters@ucalgary.ca so that I can give you credit for yourwork. You can save them as text files by selecting “Write to text file…” under the“Write” tab in Praat’s object window.