Praat

[ROOD DAVID S]

Praat is very popular with both the DoBeS teams and our own graduate
students, but we (Armik and I) like the commercial program Sound Forge
much better.  It's not free, but I don't think it's outrageous, and it is
very easy to use -- it has to be if it's got me doing things with
spectrograms.

David


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, R. Rankin wrote:

>    :-)
>
> For those not familiar with it, Praat is the name of a computer program that you
> can use to analyze speech phonetically.  It is free and can be downloaded at
> www.praat.org.  I downloaded it some time ago on recommendation of my resident
> instrumental phonetician, but haven't found the time to get it up and running.
> It could be used to analyze accent, pitch and length and their connections in
> languages.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Isn't prat British slang for something like "incompetent bungler"?  We
> > need training for that?
>