Tools for Researchers

Tools and documentation developed and maintained by WISCLab to support research workflows, acoustic analysis, and data integrity.

• ICCbot – Online Calculator of Intraclass Correlation Statistics

Web-based tool for computing ICC statistics to support reliability analysis without requiring local software.

• wisclabmisc – Lab R Package Documentation

R package providing utility functions for data wrangling, modeling, and visualization common to WISCLab workflows.

• PhonemeArticulation – Pipeline for modeling phoneme-level intelligibility growth curves

Statistical modeling pipeline for characterizing phoneme-level speech intelligibility development in pediatric populations.

• ShredGuard – PHI safeguard for git Code Repositories

CLI tool and pre-commit hook that scans for PHI patterns and replaces matches with deterministic pseudonyms, supporting HIPAA compliance in version-controlled codebases.

• Wav2TextGrid – Machine Learning-Based Forced Alignment Tool

Speaker-adaptive forced alignment tool using Wav2Vec2 to generate phonetic segmentations as Praat TextGrids from audio and transcripts.

• AlignmentComparisonPlots – Python plotting utils for comparing textgrid alignments

Visualization utilities for comparing forced alignment outputs across tools or conditions to evaluate alignment quality.

• SpeechMine – Toolkit for searching and formatting audio snippets (local first)

Local-first pipeline for searching transcribed audio corpora and extracting formatted snippets for downstream analysis.

• Guidelines for Forced Alignment Corrections

Lab conventions for manually reviewing and correcting forced alignment outputs in Praat.

• Lab GitHub Organization

Central home for WISCLab’s open-source tools, scripts, and pipelines maintained by lab staff and collaborators.