entrainment-metrics

Measure acoustic-prosodic entrainment in speech


Keywords
speech, prosody, speech-analysis, entrainment, prosodic-analysis
License
Apache-2.0
Install
pip install entrainment-metrics==1.0.6

Documentation

entrainment-metrics

Documentation Status

entrainment-metrics is all about being able to measure entrainment. Entrainment in spoken dialogue is commonly defined as a tendency of a speaker to adapt some properties of her speech to match her interlocutor’s. With this library you’ll be able to measure entrainment along one dimension: acoustic-prosodic (a/p) features.

Checkout the docs and the Getting started page for a deeper dive into the library!

Installation

  • To use entrainment_metrics, first install it using pip:
pip install entrainment_metrics
  • Speech feature extraction If you'll be using praat for feature extraction it's also required the command-line tool ffmpeg to be installed on your system, which is available from most package managers:
# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

# on Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg

# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Scoop (https://scoop.sh/)
scoop install ffmpeg

And for installing praat on Ubuntu or Debian:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install praat