a PRAAT script

You probably have your own routines to check the outliers coming from PRAAT textgrids. I didn't have one so far, so here is a very quick and dirty hack that does the job for me, in case someone would find it useful :

 #visualise_tokens.praat  
   
 #this script could be usefull if you want to inspect particular tokens (e.g. outliers)  
 #export the tokens you want to inspect to a 2 column csv file. col.1 header must be "sound_file" ; col.2 header must be "time_marker"  
 #the script will loop through each wavefile found in col.1 and will move the cursor to the desired time marker found in col.2  
   
 #note that the script can be easily improved by :  
 #1) allowing you to choose whatever col header you want (so that you don't have to name them sound_file and time_marker)  
 #2) doing some IMPORTANT checks!!! Right now it assumes your wavefiles and associated textgrids DO exist and are placed in the same directory  
 #3) allowing you to save the changes you would like to your textgrids  
 #4) predicting the jackpot for the next Big Wednesday lottery (man, how cool would that be?)  
   
 #THIS IS JUST A QUICK AND DIRTY SCRIPT, IT IS PROVIDED FOR VISUALISATION PURPOSES ONLY  
   
 form Arguments  
      comment Give the directory of the sound files:  
      sentence Directory /home/romain/Doctorat/experiences/transfer_of_position/expe_2011/french/data/  
      comment Give the name of the input csv file:  
      word InputFile /home/romain/Desktop/all/outliers.csv  
 endform  
   
 Read Table from comma-separated file... 'InputFile$'  
 Rename... table  
 select Table table  
 numF=Get number of rows  
   
 for i from 1 to 'numF'  
      select Table table  
      fileName$=Get value... i sound_file  
      target=Get value... i time_marker  
      utt$=fileName$-".wav"  
      Read from file... 'directory$''fileName$'  
      pathTG$=directory$+utt$+".TextGrid"  
      Read from file... 'pathTG$'  
      Rename... 'utt$'  
      utt$ = replace$(utt$, " ", "_", 0)  
      select Sound 'utt$'  
      plus TextGrid 'utt$'  
      Edit  
      editor TextGrid 'utt$'  
      Move cursor to... 'target'  
      endeditor  
      pause Click [Continue] to move on to the next soundfile or [Stop] to stop the script  
      select Sound 'utt$'  
      plus TextGrid 'utt$'  
      Remove  
 endfor  
   
 select Table table