FAVE extract

FAVE-extract is a tool built to automate vowel formant analysis. At the moment, high quality results can only be guaranteed for North American English.

FAVE-extract utilizes a method which can be called Bayesian Formant Tracking. For more information on the specifics of our method, see

• Evanini, K. (2009). The permeability of dialect boundaries: A case study of the region surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania.
• Labov, W., Rosenfelder, I., & Fruehwald, J. (2013). One hundred years of sound change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementaion, Reversal, and Reanalysis. Language, 89(1), 30–65.

For more on the installation and use of FAVE-extract, see

• Installing FAVE-extract
• Using FAVE-extract
• Troubleshooting FAVE-extract