# Main Package of the EMU Speech Database Management System

## Documentation for package ‘emuR’ version 2.5.2

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

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emuR-package | emuR - Main Package of the EMU Speech Database Management System

## -- A --

AddListRemoveAttrDefLabelGroup | Add / List / Remove labelGroup to / of / from attributeDefinition of emuDB
AddListRemoveLabelGroup | Add / List / Remove global labelGroup to / of / from emuDB
AddListRemoveLevelDefinitions | Add / List / Remove level definition to / of / from emuDB
AddListRemoveLinkDefinition | Add / List / Remove linkDefinition to / of / from emuDB
AddListRemovePerspective | Add / List / Remove perspective to / of / from emuDB
AddListRemoveSsffTrackDefinition | Add / List / Remove ssffTrackDefinition to / from / of emuDB
AddListRenameRemoveAttributeDefinitions | Add / List / Rename / Remove attribute definition to / of / from emuDB
add_attrDefLabelGroup | Add / List / Remove labelGroup to / of / from attributeDefinition of emuDB
add_attributeDefinition | Add / List / Rename / Remove attribute definition to / of / from emuDB
add_files | Add files to emuDB
add_labelGroup | Add / List / Remove global labelGroup to / of / from emuDB
add_levelDefinition | Add / List / Remove level definition to / of / from emuDB
add_linkDefinition | Add / List / Remove linkDefinition to / of / from emuDB
add_perspective | Add / List / Remove perspective to / of / from emuDB
add_signalViaMatlab | add_signalViaMatlab
add_ssffTrackDefinition | Add / List / Remove ssffTrackDefinition to / from / of emuDB
as.spectral | Function to convert an object into an object of class 'spectral'.
as.trackdata | Create an Emu trackdata object
autobuild_linkFromTimes | Autobuild links between two levels using their time information

## -- B --

bark | Convert Hertz to Bark and Bark to Hertz
bark.default | Convert Hertz to Bark and Bark to Hertz
bark.spectral | Convert Hertz to Bark and Bark to Hertz
bark.trackdata | Convert Hertz to Bark and Bark to Hertz
bind.trackdata | bind trackdata
bridge | Three-columned matrix
buildtrack | Build trackdata objects from the output of by()
by | A method of the generic function by for objects of class 'trackdata'
by.trackdata | A method of the generic function by for objects of class 'trackdata'

## -- C --

cbind | A method of the generic function cbind for objects of class 'trackdata'
cbind.trackdata | A method of the generic function cbind for objects of class 'trackdata'
classify | classify
classplot | Produce a classification plot from discriminant or SVM modelling
convert_BPFCollection | Convert a Bas Partitur File Collection (audio and BAS Partitur files) to an emuDB
convert_legacyEmuDB | Convert legacy EMU database to the emuDB format
convert_TextGridCollection | Convert a TextGridCollection (e.g. .wav & .TextGrid files) to emuDB
convert_txtCollection | Converts a collection of audio files and plain text transcriptions into an emuDB
convert_wideToLong | convert tracks of a tibble trackdata object to the long form
coutts | Segment list of words, read speech, female speaker of Australian English from database epgcoutts
coutts.epg | EPG-compressed trackdata from the segment list coutts
coutts.l | Vector of word label from the segment list coutts
coutts.rms | rms Data to coutts segment list
coutts.sam | Trackdata of acoustic waveforms from the segment list coutts
coutts2 | Segment list, same as coutts but at a slower speech rate
coutts2.epg | EPG-compressed trackdata from the segment list coutts2
coutts2.l | Vector of word label from the segment list coutts2
coutts2.sam | Trackdata of acoustic waveforms from the segment list coutts2
cr | Plot digital sinuoids.
create_emuDB | Create empty emuDB
create_emuRdemoData | Create demo data for the emuR package
create_emuRtrackdata | create emuRtrackdata object
create_itemsInLevel | Create new items programmatically
create_links | create links between items
create_spectrogram_image_as_raster | Create spectrogram image as raster
crplot | Function to plot a digital sinusoid and the circle from which it is derived.

## -- D --

dapply | apply a function to each part of a trackdata object
dbnorm | Function to dB-normalise spectral objects
dbtopower | Function for inter-converting between decibels and a linear scale
dct | Discrete Cosine Transformation
dcut | Function to extract a vector or matrix from EMU-Trackdata at a single time point of to create another EMU-trackdata object between two times.
dcut.sub | Function to extract a vector or matrix from EMU-Trackdata at a single time point of to create another EMU-trackdata object between two times.
ddiff | Differentiation of tracks
ddiff.sub | Differentiation of tracks
delete_itemsInLevel | Delete items programmatically
demo.all | Emu segment list
demo.all.f0 | F0 track data for segment list demo.vowels
demo.all.fm | Formant track data for segment list demo.vowels
demo.all.rms | Emu track data for a rms track for segment list demo.all
demo.vowels | Emu segment List
demo.vowels.f0 | F0 track data for segment list demo.vowels
demo.vowels.fm | Formant track data for segment list demo.vowels
dextract | Extract a subset of data from a trackdata object
dextract.sub | Extract a subset of data from a trackdata object
dim | A method of the generic function dim for objects of class 'trackdata'
dim.trackdata | A method of the generic function dim for objects of class 'trackdata'
dimnames.trackdata | Dimnames of trackdata object
dip | Segment list of diphthongs, two speakers one male, one female , Standard North German, read speech from database kielread
dip.fdat | Trackdata of formants from the segment list dip
dip.l | Vector of phoneme labels from the segment list dip
dip.spkr | Vector of speaker labels from the segment list dip
dplot | A function to plot one or more columns of EMU-trackdata as a function of time (DEPRECATED see below)
dplot.norm | A function to plot one or more columns of EMU-trackdata as a function of time (DEPRECATED see below)
dplot.time | A function to plot one or more columns of EMU-trackdata as a function of time (DEPRECATED see below)
dsmooth | Smooth the data in a trackdata object.
dsmooth.sub | Smooth the data in a trackdata object.
duplicate_level | Duplicate level
dur | duration

## -- E --

e.dft | Spectral vector of a single E vowel produced by a male speaker of Standard North German.
ellipse | Calculate ellipse coordinates
emu.track | Get trackdata from loaded emuDB
emuR | emuR - Main Package of the EMU Speech Database Management System
emuRsegs | emuR segment list
emuRtrackdata | emuR track data object
emusegs | Segment list
end.emusegs | Start and end times for EMU segment lists and trackdata objects
end.trackdata | Start and end times for EMU segment lists and trackdata objects
engassim | Segment list of a sequence of syllable final n or N preceding k or g , isolated words single speaker, Australian English female from database epgassim.
engassim.epg | EPG-compressed trackdata from the segment list engassim
engassim.l | Vector of phonetic labels from the segment list engassim: nK = nk,ng , sK = sk,sg
engassim.w | Vector of word labels from the segment list engassim.
epgai | Electropalatographic contact indices
epgci | Electropalatographic contact indices
epgcog | Electropalatographic centre of gravity
epgdi | Electropalatographic contact indices
epggs | Plot a grey-scale image of palatographic data.
epgplot | Plot palatographic data
epgsum | Sum contacts in palatograms.
eplot | Plot ellipses for two-dimensional data (DEPRECATED see below)
euclidean | Find the inter-euclidean distance for a data matrix
euclidean.metric | Find the inter-euclidean distance for a data matrix
expand_labels | Label each data sample
export_BPFCollection | Exports an emuDB into a BAS Partitur File (BPF) Collection
export_seglistToTxtCollection | Exports a segment list to txt collection
export_TextGridCollection | Export annotations of emuDB to TextGrid collection

## -- F --

fapply | Function that applies a function to an EMU spectral object
frames | frames
frames.time | Find the time and position of a data element.
freqtoint | Function to find the column number corresponding to frequencies of a spectral object
fric | Segment list of word-medial s or z one male speaker of Standard North German, read speech from database kielread.
fric.dft | Spectral trackdata object from the segment list fric.
fric.l | Vector of labels from the segment list fric
fric.w | Vector of word labels from the segment list fric.

## -- G --

get.time.element | Get data for a given time
get_legalLabels | Set / Get / Remove legal labels of attributeDefinition of emuDB
get_levelCanvasesOrder | Set / Get level canvases order of emuDB
get_signalCanvasesOrder | Set / Get signalCanvasesOrder of / to / from emuDB
get_trackdata | Get trackdata from loaded emuDB

## -- I --

import_mediaFiles | Import media files to emuDB
is.spectral | Function to test whether the object is of class "spectral"
is.trackdata | Test whether an object is an Emu trackdata object
isol | Segment list of vowels in a d d context isolated word speech, one male speaker of Australian English from database isolated.
isol.fdat | Trackdata of formants from the segment list isol
isol.l | Vector of vowel phoneme labels from the segment list isol

## -- L --

label | Get labels / utterances from segment list
label.emusegs | Get labels / utterances from segment list
linear | Perform linear time normalisation on trackdata.
list | emuR segment list
list_attrDefLabelGroups | Add / List / Remove labelGroup to / of / from attributeDefinition of emuDB
list_attributeDefinitions | Add / List / Rename / Remove attribute definition to / of / from emuDB
list_bundles | List bundles of emuDB
list_files | List files of emuDB
list_labelGroups | Add / List / Remove global labelGroup to / of / from emuDB
list_levelDefinitions | Add / List / Remove level definition to / of / from emuDB
list_linkDefinitions | Add / List / Remove linkDefinition to / of / from emuDB
list_perspectives | Add / List / Remove perspective to / of / from emuDB
list_sampleRates | List sample rates of media and annotation (_annot.json) files
list_sessions | List sessions of emuDB
list_ssffTrackDefinitions | Add / List / Remove ssffTrackDefinition to / from / of emuDB
load_emuDB | Load emuDB
locus | Calculate locus equations for two-dimensional data

## -- M --

mahal | Classify using Mahalanobis distance
mahal.dist | Calculate mahalanobis distances
make.emuRsegs | Make emuDB segment list
make.seglist | Make an Emu segment list from the various components
makelab | Write out ESPS-style label files
Math.trackdata | Track data object
Math2.trackdata | Track data object
matscan | Read matrix data from a file
mel | Convert Hz to the mel scale
mel.spectral | Convert Hz to the mel scale
mel.trackdata | Convert Hz to the mel scale
modify.seglist | Modify one of the components of an Emu segment list
moments | Function to calculate statistical moments
mu.colour | Function for specifying color, linetype, and line-widths in EMU plotting functions.
muclass | Find common elements in vectors

## -- N --

norm | Normalise speech data
normalize_length | Normalize length of segments contained in a 'data.frame' like object returned by 'get_trackdata'

## -- O --

Ops.trackdata | Track data object

## -- P --

palate | Obtain a three-dimensional palatographic array
perform | Performance (hit rate) of a confusion matrix
plafit | Calculate the coefficients of a parabola
plot.spectral | Plot spectra from EMU spectral objects
plot.trackdata | Produces time-series plots from trackdata
polhom | Segment list of four Polish homorganic fricatives from database epgpolish.
polhom.epg | EPG-compressed trackdata from the segment list polhom
polhom.l | Vector of phonetic labels from the segment list polhom
print.emuRsegs | Print emuRsegs segment list
print.emuRtrackdata | Print emuRtrackdata object

## -- Q --

query | Query emuDB

## -- R --

rad | Function to convert between Hertz and Radians
radians | Converts degrees to radians
randomise.segs | Randomise or Reverse items in a segment list
rbind | A method of the generic function rbind for objects of class trackdata
rbind.trackdata | A method of the generic function rbind for objects of class trackdata
read.emusegs | Create an Emu segment list from a file
read_bundleList | read bundleList
remove_attrDefLabelGroup | Add / List / Remove labelGroup to / of / from attributeDefinition of emuDB
remove_attributeDefinition | Add / List / Rename / Remove attribute definition to / of / from emuDB
remove_labelGroup | Add / List / Remove global labelGroup to / of / from emuDB
remove_legalLabels | Set / Get / Remove legal labels of attributeDefinition of emuDB
remove_levelDefinition | Add / List / Remove level definition to / of / from emuDB
remove_linkDefinition | Add / List / Remove linkDefinition to / of / from emuDB
remove_perspective | Add / List / Remove perspective to / of / from emuDB
remove_ssffTrackDefinition | Add / List / Remove ssffTrackDefinition to / from / of emuDB
rename_attributeDefinition | Add / List / Rename / Remove attribute definition to / of / from emuDB
rename_bundles | Rename bundles in emuDB
rename_emuDB | Rename emuDB
replace_itemLabels | Replace item labels
requery_hier | Requery hierarchical context of a segment list in an emuDB
requery_seq | Requery sequential context of segment list in an emuDB
resample_annots | Resample annotations ('_annot.json') files of emuDB
runBASwebservice_all | Runs several BAS webservices, starting from an orthographic transcription
runBASwebservice_chunker | Creates a chunk segmentation using the webservice Chunker.
runBASwebservice_g2pForPronunciation | Creates canonical pronunciation attributes for a tier of tokenized orthographical words.
runBASwebservice_g2pForTokenization | Tokenizes an orthographic transcription.
runBASwebservice_maus | Runs MAUS webservice to create a phonetic segmentation
runBASwebservice_minni | Creates a rough phonetic segmentation by running the phoneme decoder webservice MINNI.
runBASwebservice_pho2sylCanonical | Adds syllabified word labels to a word level that already contains canonical pronunciations.
runBASwebservice_pho2sylSegmental | Creates a syllable segmentation on the basis of a phonetic segmentation.

## -- S --

segment | emuR segment list
segmentlist | Segment list
serve | Serve EMU database to EMU-webApp
SetGetlevelCanvasesOrder | Set / Get level canvases order of emuDB
SetGetRemoveLegalLabels | Set / Get / Remove legal labels of attributeDefinition of emuDB
SetGetSignalCanvasesOrder | Set / Get signalCanvasesOrder of / to / from emuDB
set_legalLabels | Set / Get / Remove legal labels of attributeDefinition of emuDB
set_levelCanvasesOrder | Set / Get level canvases order of emuDB
set_signalCanvasesOrder | Set / Get signalCanvasesOrder of / to / from emuDB
shift | Function to shift the elements of a vector.
Slope.test | Slope Test
sort.emuRsegs | Sort emuRsegs segment list by session, bundle and sample_start
sortmatrix | Sort matrix by label
splitstring | Split a string into words.
start.emusegs | Start and end times for EMU segment lists and trackdata objects
start.trackdata | Start and end times for EMU segment lists and trackdata objects
summary.emuDBhandle | Print summary of loaded EMU database (emuDB).
Summary.trackdata | Track data object

## -- T --

track.gradinfo | Calculate gradient summary information for trackdata
trackdata | Track data object
trackfreq | function to find the frequencies of a spectral object
tracktimes | Get the track times from EMU trackdata objects
train | Train a Gaussian Model
trapply | A method of the generic function by for objects of class 'trackdata'

## -- U --

update_itemsInLevel | Update items programmatically
utt | Get labels / utterances from segment list
utt.emusegs | Get labels / utterances from segment list

## -- V --

vowlax | Segment list of four lax vowels, read speech, one male and one female speaker of Standard North German from database kielread.
vowlax.df | Data frame of various parameters and labels from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.dft.5 | Spectral matrix centred at the temporal midpoint of the vowels from the segment list vowlax.
vowlax.fdat | Trackdata of formants from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.fdat.5 | Matrix of formant data extracted at the temporal midpoint from the segment list vowlax.
vowlax.fund | Trackdata of fundamental frequency from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.fund.5 | Vector of fundamental frequency extracted at the temporal midpoint from the segment list vowlax.
vowlax.l | Vector of phoneme labels from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.left | Vector of labels preceding the vowels from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.right | Vector of labels following the vowels from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.rms | Trackdata of RMS energy from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.rms.5 | Vector of RMS energy values at the temporal midpoint extracted at the temporal midpoint from the segment list vowlax
vowlax.spkr | Vector of speaker labels from the segment list vowlax.
vowlax.word | Vector of word labels from the segment list vowlax.

## -- W --

wordlax.l | Vector of word labels from segment list wordlax
write.emusegs | Write an Emu segment list to a file
write_bundleList | write bundleList