# Phonology Assistant

> A cutting-edge discovery tool designed to streamline the analysis of phonetic data. By providing a robust platform that automatically charts sounds from a corpus of phonetic data, Phonology Assistant helps users uncover and test sound rules within a language. Whether working with lexical items, tone melodies, or phrasal utterances, this software simplifies the intricate processes of phonetic analysis.

- **Slug:** `phonology-assistant`
- **Organization:** SIL
- **Website:** https://software.sil.org/phonologyassistant/
- **HTML page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/phonology-assistant
- **Markdown page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/phonology-assistant.md

## Classification

- **Translation stages:** Language Development
- **Medium:** Oral, Written
- **Pricing:** Free (Restricted)
- **Release status:** General Availability
- **Integrations:** FieldWorks
- **Localization:** English
- **Translation type:** Any
- **License:** MIT
- Developer expertise needed
- Linguistic expertise needed
- Offline capable

## Description

Phonology Assistant takes phonetic data that has been collected from speakers of a language and charts the sounds, helping the user to discover patterns and rules that govern the sounds of the language.

## Additional details

### Tone Analysis

Phonology Assistant can sort lexical items by tone melody and look at tone across phrasal utterances.

### Feature Analysis

The participatory approach gets immediately at conscious native speaker distinctive categories, and the phonetics thereof. Phonology Assistant is a great support for charting and searching.

### Onset, Coda, and Rhyme

Distribution Charts provide a quick summary of Onset, Coda, and Rhyme occurrences and so much more.

## Testimonials

> It is very helpful to add multiple databases for one analysis view. That is I can have multiple databases from which Phonology Assistant reads whether they be FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) or ToolBox or some other type. For other reasons, I maintain two separate FLEx databases on one language.
>
> — Phonology Assistant user

## Screenshots

![Phonology Assistant screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/Phonology-Assistant-corpus-explorer-1.png)

![Phonology Assistant screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/Phonology-Assistant-vowel-charts-1.png)

![Phonology Assistant screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/Phonology-Assistant-distribution-charts-2.png)

![Phonology Assistant screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/Phonology-Assistant-distribution-charts-1.png)

![Phonology Assistant screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/Phonology-Assistant-consonent-charts-1.png)

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- [Speech Analyzer](https://www.tools.bible/tools/speech-analyzer.md)
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