Praat 6.0.17

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 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

Praat for:
   * Macintosh
   * Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10
   * Linux, FreeBSD
   * SGI, Solaris, HPUX
   * the source code

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