rOpenSci | Phonetic Fieldwork and Experiments with the phonfieldwork Package for R

As a field linguist, I have spent a lot of time working in villages in the Caucasus, collecting audio from speakers of indigenous languages. The processing of such data involves a lot of time-consuming tasks, so during my field trips I created my own pipeline for data collection. I wrote a number of scripts using different programming languages for automatic renaming, merging, and preannotation of files, making backups, visualizing some data, etc. My method consisted of a combination of solutions developed on the fly to solve specific, independent tasks, without thinking of the future.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ropensci.org/blog/2020/12/22/phonfieldwork-phonetic-fieldwork-and-experiments/