Creating A Vowel Chart in Excel
Creating A Vowel Chart in Excel
Excel
can
be
a
useful
tool
for
displaying
vowel
data.
The
following
is
a
basic
guide
for
how
to
manage
your
vowel
data
and
plot
it
in
Excel.
1) Handling
Data
‐ After
you
have
used
Praat
to
measure
vowel
formants,
either
by
hand
or
automatically
with
a
script,
you
will
have
a
set
of
formant
values
that
you
will
need
to
organize.
‐ First,
you
need
to
provide
labels
for
the
columns
where
the
data
will
go.
o Rows
–
Vowel
#1,
Vowel
#2,
etc.
o Columns
–
Word,
Vowel,
F1_T1,
F1_T2,
…,
F2_T1,
F2_T2,
…,
etc.
‐ Enter
the
information
and
measurements
for
each
vowel
row.
2) Plotting
the
Vowel
Measurements
‐ Insert
a
basic
scatterplot.
(This
step
varies
from
each
version
of
Excel
–
generally
speaking,
an
‘X
Y
(Scatter)’
plot
is
one
of
the
options
available
when
you
insert
a
chart.
‐ After
you’ve
inserted
a
new
chart,
right‐click
the
empty
box
(your
blank
scatterplot)
and
select
<Select
Data>.