Resources
We have a number of resources available including equipment, software and scripts as well as other online resources.
Equipment
With the support of the Faculty of Humanities and grants awarded to individual faculty members, we provide a wide array of equipment for conducting research through Linguistics.
Some resources are available in the following areas:
- audio/video digitization and editing
- data collection
- experimental design and analysis
- phoetic analysis
Some equipment can be borrowed on a short-term basis:
- field recorders
- smartphone compatible microphones
- xlr compatible field recorders
Please contact the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures office for more information.
Software & scripts
A large collection of industry standard audio, video, statistics, analytics and perception commercial software is available in the Labs.
Additional software is also available for download or online use:
- for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- Multimedia Online Web Dictionary
You can also download the following Praat scripts:
- downsample.praat
- draw-waveform-sgram-f0.praat
- get-formant.praat
- GetVowelFormants_script.praat
- get-values-tones.praat
- label-tones.praat
- MeasurementScript_inEditor.praat
- NSP2WAV.praat
- openwaveandcreatetextgrid.praat
- openandsaveorcreattextandwav.praat
- OpenExistingWavsandTextgrids.praat
- QV_tokeninfo.praat
- textgrid-creator.praat
- ToManipulation_PRE_script.praat
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
The lets you click a character to hear it pronounced, and features audio descriptions and examples, as well as pulmonic and non-pulmonic charts. To use the chart, you will a UVic Netlink ID, a recent browser and QuickTime installed on your computer.