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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@clrnance.bsky.social and Sam Kirkham did something like this! I have a few papers using functional data analytic methods to model spectral shape in stop releases -- I'm a big proponent of this precisely to avoid imposing whatever's captured in pre-fab toolkits to spectra we don't yet understand

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

reapeR can also return other goodies, such as frame-wise probabilities of voicing onset/offset, and "pseudo-probability" of voicing in any frame 3/6

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Simply pass the name of a sound file, and get an estimate of pitch and the locations of epochs (glottal closure instants). Alternatively, pass the name of a directory, and get estimates from every sound file in there 2/6

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The upshot: CF0 effects are larger and more extensive in *global* high pitch environments, especially when there are no strict phonological demands in terms of pitch trajectory. In *local* high pitch environments with specific phonological demands in terms of trajectory, the opposite holds. 4/6

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We were also particularly interested in how CF0 interacts with other sources of pitch raising, so we looked at effects in high/low global pitch contexts, in words with and without stød (iykyk), and in two varieties that differ in their stress-pitch alignment 3/6

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

PSA Praat has a third author now! Time to reinstall and update those citations!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We're looking for a full-time lab manager for the Oxford phonetics lab for an initial three-year stint! Please apply, please spread the word, and feel free tor each out if you have any questions my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

- and you can now highlight different parts of figures in different ways (thanks to Josie Riverin-Coutlée!) 2/3

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Fun fact, the name Ladefoged is Danish. It's notoriously difficult to pronounce in Danish, because the 2nd and 4th syllables are both "soft d's", the bizarre outcome of a historical /d/-vocalization process. 1/2

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I had this sort of thing in my dissertation which was done with tikz. Looks like delinking was just a small = placed in the middle of the line, not super elegant but got the job done

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

One of my favorite street names in Leiden!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Mainly, you can now easily plot ERB and Mel scaled spectrograms and spectra. This something that I didn't know a nice way of doing before but came in handy when teaching the difference between 'physicalist' and 'perceptualist' (?) scales. Hope this can be useful to others too!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Does anyone have any insights as to why labiodental trills are *not* greyed out in the IPA chart? Henton brings it up as an example of an impossible sound in a 1987 discussion paper that precedes the Greyboi™, but as far as I can tell it's never been greyed out.

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Sightseeing in Barcelona, found the hottest museum in town! I love this so much

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Additionally, you can now control the range of the y-axis when plotting waveforms, fx to ensure that multiple channels share the same range for easier comparison. (Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social for suggesting this!)

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

... and the signal processing can be controlled relatively freely, including the option to choose window shape and size, and to estimate spectra using either FFT or the multitaper method

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

.... and generally, the appearance of the plots can be controlled pretty freely, including options for highlighting parts of the plot ...

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The axes of these plots can be flexibly controlled...

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

💥praatpicture 1.6.2 now on CRAN 💥 The main new feature is that there's now a function to draw spectral slices

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Plotting your spectral slices in R will soon be a lot easier!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Another minor change is that you can now control how many digits to print along the y-axis of waveforms (or suppress it entirely), and the center no longer says 0.000 but just 0 which is a lot nicer!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

estimate and track formants, get intensity, get HNR, get spectral information, spit out file information, read TextGrids, and combine TextGrid and signal information

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

What you can do for now is read in sound files (more or less file-type-agnostically), track pitch, ...

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Very exciting news for PraatSauce users! We've just pushed a new version which fully rewrites the code base, making things faster and simpler to use. Instead of settings parameters in a bunch of Praat windows, you now set them in a spreadsheet file that looks like this github.com/kirbyj/praat...

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Way ahead of you! Went on a long walk in the park, saw fresh ducklings and goslings!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

praatpicture v1.4.2 is now on CRAN 🍾 meaning that these highlighting options are now available at an R package store near you (and in the Shiny app!). No other major updates this time!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Linguistlist being a little too real this morning

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Had a couple of real oldies in my most recent paper, particularly proud of the 1678 citation!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Got carried away, more highlighting options coming soon to an R package store near you!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

There are also signal-specific arguments for making just the pitch, or formant contour, or whatever stand out. This is also implemented in the Shiny app. Have fun plotting! (3/3)

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The main new thing is the 'highlight' argument for making portions of signals stand out with a different color, point size, or similar. This can be done by specifying exact times or by matching labels in a TextGrid (2/3)

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Try it out! Let me know if anything doesn't work! Enjoy some nice REAPER-predicted glottal closure instants!

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

there's quite a lot of formant customization options in the praatpicture R library, I'm also very happy to take suggestions if I'm missing a use case!