Friday, October 30, 2015

Praat 6.0.00

Functionality:
The following gives you an idea of the features of the Praat program. The links take you into the web copy of the manual. The same manual is also available from Praat's Help menus, in which case you can see the pictures and do searches.

Speech analysis:
spectral analysis (spectrograms)
pitch analysis
formant analysis
intensity analysis
jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
cochleagram
excitation pattern

Speech synthesis:
from pitch, formant, and intensity
articulatory synthesis
Klatt acoustic synthesis

Listening experiments:
identification and discrimination tests

Labelling and segmentation:
label intervals and time points on multiple tiers
use phonetic alphabet
use sound files up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)

Speech manipulation:
change pitch and duration contours
filtering

Learning algorithms:
feedforward neural networks
discrete and stochastic Optimality Theory

Statistics:
multidimensional scaling
principal component analysis
discriminant analysis

Graphics:
high quality for your articles and thesis
produce Encapsulated PostScript files
integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols

Programmability:
easy programmable scripting language
communicate with other programs
(the sendpraat source code)
create hypertext manuals with sound I/O

Portability:
machine-independent binary files
read and write many sound and other file types

Configurability:
grow or shrink menus
save prefs for fonts, views, sound devices

This page lists some beginner's manuals for Praat that were written by others than Paul Boersma and David Weenink; please don’t forget to read the Intro in Praat (under Help) as well.

a tutorial by Will Styler in English
a tutorial by Sidney Wood in English and Swedish
a tutorial by Pascal van Lieshout in English (under "Resources & Links")
a tutorial by Jörg Mayer in German
a tutorial by Domingo Román in Spanish
a tutorial by José Alejandro Correa Duarte in Spanish
a tutorial by István Szekrényes in Hungarian
About Praat scripting (please don’t forget to read the Scripting tutorial in Praat as well):

a tutorial by Mauricio Figueroa in English

Download Praat:
   * Macintosh
   * Windows
   * Linux, FreeBSD
   * SGI, Solaris, HPUX
   * the source code

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

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