NEWS

---

nzilbb.labbcat 1.3-0 (2023-07-19)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20230224.1731

Enhancements

• getMatches replaces participant.ids and transcript.types parameters with participant.expression and transcript.expression parameters, in line with the underlying API, and allowing more flexibility with queries.
• getMatches parameter aligned is now deprecated, please set anchor.confidence.min = 50 instead
• getMatches parameter anchor.confidence.min now filters out results, instead of just returning NA for offsets below the minumum confidence. To return all results and offsets, regardless of confidence, set anchor.confidence.min = 0.
• processWithPraat's window.offset parameter no longer has a default value, and includes more thorough documentation, to ensure callers are aware of the parameter's implications.

New functions:

• labbcatVersionInfo - gets version information of all components of LaBB-CAT
• Helper functions for formulating the new participant.expression and transcript.expression parameters of getMatches:
  • expressionFromIds : expression based on a list of IDs
  • expressionFromAttributeValue : expression based on a list of possible attribute values
  • expressionFromAttributeValues : expression based on a list of possible attribute values, for attributes that can have multiple values
  • expressionFromTranscriptTypes : expression based on a list of possible transcript types
• Manage participant records
  • getParticipant : Gets ID and participant attribute values for a single participant.
  • saveParticipant : Saves participant data (supports creating and renaming participants).
  • deleteParticipant : Deletes a single participant record.
  • renameParticipants : Batch rename participants.

nzilbb.labbcat 1.2-0 (2023-02-02)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20230202.1600

New functions:

• countMatchingAnnotations and getMatchingAnnotations : Retrieve individual annotations that match a pattern expression.
• formatTranscript: Downloads an entire transcript in a given format - e.g. Praat TextGrid.
• getMediaUrl: Returns the URL for a given transcript.
• getFragmentAnnotations: Returns all tokens in given transcripts on given layers between start/end times.

Enhancements

• getMedia now downloads the media and returns the file name, rather than returning the URL.
• getMatches accepts a string as a pattern, and assumes it's a space-delimited orthography layer search.
• getMatches now has anchor.confidence.min parameter, to allow retrieval of start/end times that have low confidence.
• getMatchLabels and getMatchAlignments now return NA rather than empty strings.
• getTranscriptIdsInCorpus, getTranscriptIdsWithParticipant, and *getTranscriptIds now return a character vector whether there are results or not.
• countAnnotations and getAnnotations now has max.ordinal parameter, to allow retrieval of only the first word tag annotations in a transcript.

nzilbb.labbcat 1.1-1 (2022-05-19)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20220401.1842

Enhancements

• praatScriptPitch and praatScriptIntensity have additional parameters
  • sample.points - Get value at time for points spread through the duration of the sample
  • interpolation - interpolation to use for Get value at time
  • skip.errors - how to handle errors when Praat can't create objects

nzilbb.labbcat 1.1-0 (2022-04-12)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20220401.1842

New functions:

• updateFragment : Upload an uttereance file (e.g. TextGrid) to update labels and/or alignments.
• generateLayer : Generate annotations on a given layer for all transcripts in the corpus.
• generateLayerUtterances : Generate a layer for a given utterances.
• getAnnotatorDescriptor : Get information about an annotator.
• annotatorExt : Retrieve an annotator extension resource.
• Manage annotation layers
  • newLayer : Add a new annotation layer.
  • saveLayer : Save a new definition for an existing annotation layer.
  • deleteLayer : Delete an existing annotation layer.
• Manage Flat Lexicon Tagger lexicons
  • uploadLexicon : Upload a lexicon file for the Flat Lexicon Tagger.
  • deleteLexicon : Delete a previously uploaded lexicon from the Flat Lexicon Tagger.
• Manage dictionary entries
  • addLayerDictionaryEntry
  • removeLayerDictionaryEntry
  • addDictionaryEntry
  • removeDictionaryEntry

nzilbb.labbcat 1.0-1 (2021-07-07)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20210601.1528

Enhancements

• All function parameters are now named with dot.case instead of camelCase, for internal and external consistency.
• Re-instate no.progress parameter for
  • getAllUtterances
  • getMatchAlignments
  • getMatchLabels
  • getSoundFragments
  • newTranscript
  • updateTranscript
  • processWithPraat
• Break some requests into chunks to avoid timeouts for very large result sets:
  • getMatches
  • getMatchLabels
  • getMatchAlignments
• Introduce include.match.ids parameter for manual matching of prior results if required for
  • getMatchLabels
  • getMatchAlignments
• Introduce page.length parameter for tuning request sizes on some functions for
  • getAnchors
  • getAnnotations
  • getMatchingTranscriptIds
  • getMatches
  • getMatchLabels
  • getMatchAlignments
• CSV-related bug fixes.
• Improve progress bar handling.
• Improve documentation of matching expression language.

New functions:

• getMatchingParticipantIds: Gets a list of IDs of participants that match a particular pattern.

nzilbb.labbcat 0.7-1 (2021-05-27)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20210210.2032

Enhancements

• remove no.progress parameter (progress bar will appear automatically only in interactive mode).
• getMatches now supports overlap.threshold parameter.

New functions:

• newTranscript : Upload a new transcript (with media) to the server.
• updateTranscript : Upload a new version of an existing transcript to the server.
• deleteTranscript : Delete a transcript (and its media) from the server.
• getAllUtterances : Get all utterances of given participants.
• praatScriptFastTrack : Adds support for using the FastTrack Praat plugin for formant analysis.

nzilbb.labbcat 0.6-1 (2020-08-26)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20200812.1253

New functions:

• getMatchAlignments : Gets temporal alignments of matches on a given layer.
• getSerializerDescriptors : Returns a list of serializers, which are modules that export annotation structures as a specific file format.
• getDeserializerDescriptors : Returns a list of deserializers, which are modules that import transcriptions and annotation structures from a specific file format.
• getUserInfo : Gets information about the current user.
• getSystemAttribute : Gets the value of the given system attribute.

nzilbb.labbcat 0.5-1 (2020-06-13)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20200608.1507

New functions:

• getParticipantAttributes : Gets participant attribute values for given participant IDs.
• getTranscriptAttributes : Gets transcript attribute values for given transcript IDs.
• processWithPraat : Process a set of intervals with Praat in order to extract acoustic measures, including functions for predefined measures:
• praatScriptCentreOfGravity
• praatScriptFormants
• praatScriptIntensity
• praatScriptPitch

Enhancements

• getAnnotationLabels now supports
  • retrieval of multiple layers
  • labels for next/previous token

nzilbb.labbcat 0.4-1 (2020-01-09)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20200108.1025

Enhancements

• Added getMatches function for searching LaBB-CAT
• Improved handling of large lists passed to getAnchors
• Increased default timeout period

nzilbb.labbcat 0.3-1 (2019-10-28)

Minimum LaBB-CAT version 20191022.1827

New functions:

• getFragments : for exporting fragments as Praat TextGrids.
• labbcatTimeout : for specifying the request timeout (for those with slow internet)

Enhancements

• path parameter for the getSoundFragments function