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I am trying to process a "segmentation file" called .TextGrid (generated by Praat program). ) The original format looks like this: File type = "ooTextFile" Object class = "TextGrid" xmin = 0 xmax = 243.761375 tiers? <exists> size = 17 item []: item [1]: class = "IntervalTier" name = "phones" xmin = 0 xmax = 243.761 intervals: size = 2505 intervals [1]: xmin = 0 xmax = 0.4274939687384032 text = "_" intervals [2]: xmin = 0.4274939687384032 xmax = 0.472 text = "v" intervals [3]: [...] (This is then repeted to EOF, with intervals[3 to n] for n Item (layer of annotation) in a file. Somebody

just working with Praat at the moment, and I'm trying to write a script to do the following with a collection of 3 Sound (narrative) files. I've managed as far as c), the scripting part is relatively easy. What I don't get is how to write it to a text file with those columns. Any help would be great! a) create a program that extracts all intervals on the phone tier of each of Narratives 1–3 which represent vowels whose label is a single letter, keeping times. I need each resulting Sound to have an appropriate label which identifies the vowel concerned b) creates a Formant (burg) object