Forced Alignment and Vowel Extraction (FAVE)

This website documents the FAVE software, version 2.

Warning

If you have used FAVE before, please read usage/whats-new to familiarize yourself with the differences between the current and legacy versions of FAVE.

Guides and documentation

For Users

• FAVE User Guides
  • What’s new in version 2
    • Updating software
      • Check your python version
      • Installing FAVE
    • Aligning and extracting with FAVE 2
      • Aligning using FAAValign.py
      • Getting vowel data using extractFormants.py
    • The FAVE Python module
    • Frequently Asked Questions
      • What was wrong with the old FAVE?
      • Why does the new version work differently?
  • Installing FAVE 2
    • Required software
    • Install with PIP
      • Other package managers
  • Quickstart guide to using FAVE 2.0

For Developers

• Module documentation
  • fave.align
    • FAVE Aligner module
    • FAVE TranscriptProcessor module
  • fave.extract
    • FAVE esps module
    • FAVE Mahalanobis module
    • FAVE Plotnik module
    • FAVE Remeasure module
    • FAVE Vowel module
  • fave.cmudictionary
  • fave.praat