SPPAS – the automatic annotation and analyses of speech, is a scientific computer software tool, daily developed with the aim to be a robust and reliable software.
Available for free, with open source code, there is simply no other package for linguists to simple use in the automatic annotations of speech, the analyses of any kind of annotated data and the conversion of annotated files. You can imagine the annotations or analyses you need, SPPAS does the rest! It doesn’t do? Send your suggestion to the author!
SPPAS’s data files are XML-based, however SPPAS is compatible with Praat, Elan and Transcriber. SPPAS is written in Python and runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms.