Resources

I’ve put together a number of resources that may be useful to linguists as well as to students, teachers, and writers of Yiddish.

Bibliography

My .bib file of references for LaTeX. This is likely to be most relevant to sociolinguists and anybody whose language interests overlap with mine. Click here for a compiled PDF version.

Research Tools

• Speaker Diarization for Linguistics, a tutorial co-authored with Ronald L. Sprouse that can be used to generate ELAN or Praat files for audio recordings with speech segments marked off on the relevant speaker tiers. This automates what is often a tedious manual step in the transcription workflow (for sociolinguistic interviews, fieldwork elicitation recordings, etc.).

Typing in Yiddish / Text Tools

• Yiddish Klal, a Standard Yiddish keyboard layout for Mac computers, with a guide on how to install and use it. (The layout is also available for Chrome OS from the Chrome Web Store.)
• yiddish: A Python library for processing Yiddish text
• REYD: Reading Electronic Yiddish Documents, a text-to-speech dataset and system for Yiddish
• Hasidifier, an orthographic normalizer for Yiddish. Hasidifier accepts text written in Standard Yiddish (according to the YIVO spelling system, used by the Forverts newspaper and taught in universities) and outputs the same text written in Hasidic orthography
• A tool to convert Library of Congress transliterations to YIVO
• Python scripts to syllabify and hyphenate Yiddish text
• A date converter for the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars, written in Standard Yiddish
• Hebrew fonts that I’ve modified to include Yiddish diacritics: Bellefair, Gveret Levin (a handwriting font), Keter YG, Suez