Praat

[lcumberl at indiana.edu]

Well, then, I have a question for you and Armik - I use Sound Forge, too, but I
can't find settings that give me spectrograms clear enough to print.  what
settings do you use?

Linda

Quoting ROOD DAVID S <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>:

>
> 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?
> >
>
>
>