Gets transcript(s) in a given format.

This function gets whole transcripts from 'LaBB-CAT', converted to a given format (by default, Praat TextGrid).

formatTranscript(
  labbcat.url,
  id,
  layer.ids,
  mime.type = "text/praat-textgrid",
  path = ""
)

Arguments

labbcat.url

URL to the LaBB-CAT instance

id

The transcript ID (transcript name) of the sound recording, or a vector of transcript IDs. If the same ID appears more than one, the formatted file is downloaded only once.

layer.ids

A vector of layer IDs.

mime.type

Optional content-type - "text/praat-textgrid" is the default, but your LaBB-CAT installation may support other formats, which can be discovered using getSerializerDescriptors.

path

Optional path to directory where the files should be saved.

Value

The name of the file, which is saved in the current directory, or the given path, or a list of names of files, if multiple id's were specified.

If a list of files is returned, they are in the order that they were returned by the server, which *should* be the order that they were specified in the id list.

Details

NB Although many formats will generate exactly one file for each interval (e.g. mime.type=text/praat-textgrid), this is not guaranted; some formats generate a single file or a fixed collection of files regardless of how many IDs there are.

See also

getSerializerDescriptors

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Get the TextGrid of a recording
textgrid.file <- formatTranscript(labbcat.url, "AP2505_Nelson.eaf",
    c("word", "segment"), path="textgrids") 

## Get all the transcripts of a given participant
transcript.ids <- getTranscriptIdsWithParticipant(labbcat.url, "AP2505_Nelson")

## Download all the TextGrids, including the utterances, transcript, and segment layers
textgrid.files <- formatTranscript(
    labbcat.url, transcript.ids, c("utterance", "word", "segment"))

}