Any software that label a WAV file into phonemes

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I have a WAV file contains a subject speech. The subject speaks a sentence once at a time, then a short period of silent appears. I'm interested to analyze the phonemes of that speech and what time each phoneme occurs. For instance, I am looking for something like this:

6.5-6.8 'AE'
6.8-7.0 'NG'

Is there any software supports such a thing?

Not just English, but it would need to know the particular accent in order to turn phones into phonemes. — curiousdannii, Feb 14 '18 at 03:53
I suppose you're looking for a program that will automatically separate a WAV file into segments, but it you just want a display and labeling program that an expert spectrogram reader uses, Praat is the usual tool. — user6726, Feb 14 '18 at 05:49
Possible duplicate of How to convert a string to their IPA equivalent — Sir Cornflakes, Feb 14 '18 at 15:49
Related question and answer: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/25512/automatic-sentence-segmentation-of-recorded-speech-with-text/25513#25513 — Sir Cornflakes, Feb 14 '18 at 15:50

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '18 at 05:48

Broadly, you're describing the entire (not-fully-solved) problem of automatic speech recognition/automatic transcription.

However, if you have the text of the sentences (e.g., if the recordings are scripted, or if you've manually transcribed their speech), then the problem is more tractable: you want 'forced alignment'.

A popular software option for that is the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner (available at http://web.sas.upenn.edu/phonetics-lab/facilities/). There is documentation, but you might also do a web search for tutorials and guides.

The software you mentioned is perfect if you have the text. I validated its output using Praat software (aurally and visually) and it was quite accurate. — cyberic, Dec 19 '18 at 22:50

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '18 at 05:30

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Praat is the main program used to analyze sound data for phonetics research. It's available for free at the link. You can use the program to add markers and replay snippets, as well as analyze formants.

answered Feb 14 '18 at 05:30

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