Paper presented at COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2016 Dec 11-17; Osaka, Japan.

This paper presents an implementation of the widely used speech analysis tool Praat as a web application with an extended functionality for feature annotation. In particular, Praat on the Web addresses some of the central limitations of the original Praat tool and provides (i) enhanced visualization of annotations in a dedicated window for feature annotation at interval and point segments, (ii) a dynamic scripting composition exemplified with a modular prosody tagger, and (iii) portability and an operational web interface. Speech annotation tools with such a functionality are key for exploring large corpora and designing modular pipelines.

This work is part of the KRISTINA project, which has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement number H2020-RIA-645012. It has been also partly supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502). The third author is partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity through the Juan de la Cierva program.