Phonemic Tagging with the Spanish Phonology Transcriber

This layer manager annotates Spanish words their phonemic transcription, based on rules that map orthography to phonology.

Rule-based conversion is based on spanish-pronunciation-rules-php, an open-source PHP function that converts a Spanish word into IPA phonetic transcription symbols, written by Timur Baytukalov, http://easypronunciation.com/en/

Creating a Phonemes Layer

To create a new layer with annotations from your dictionary:

Select the word layers option on the menu - this will display a list of all the word layers you already have in the database.
At the top of the list, there’s a blank form for creating a new layer - fill this form in:
- Layer ID - enter a one- or two-word description - e.g. phonemes
- Type - select Phonological
- Manager - select Spanish phonological transcriber
- Alignment - select None (as these are simply tags on the orthographic words)
- Generate - select Always
Press the New button to create the layer. You will see the layer configuration page. Check the online help for explanations of all options, but at least:
Ensure the Source Layer is orthography
Select the desired Locale from the list.
Press Save
Press Regenerate.
You will see a progress bar while the layer manager annotates all the transcripts that have already been uploaded.

LaBB-CAT will then generate annotations for all the transcripts you already have in your database. If you have a lot of data, this may take a while.

From now on, when you upload a new transcript, annotations will automatically be generated by using the mapping rules for the selected locale.