Praat Voice Analysis



ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS SUMMARY Praat acoustic analysis Name: Date of Birth: Address: Recorded on: Sustaining /a/: Duration: seconds Voicing: Fraction of locally unvoiced frames:% Number of voice breaks: Degree of voice breaks:% Jitter (local) pitch perturbation:%. This installation steps assumes that you have Praat installed on your computer. Download the plugin here Extract the zip and put the folder 'pluginVocalToolkit' in your Praat preferences directory. You can execute this command in a Praat script window to know where your preferences folder is.

Praat
Developer(s)Paul Boersma and David Weenink
Initial release1991[1]
Stable release
Repository
Written inC, C++, Objective-C
Operating systemWindows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available inEnglish
TypeFree software
LicenseGPLv2[3]
Websitewww.praat.org
Voice

Praat (/prɑːt/; Dutch: [praːt](listen), 'talk') is a freecomputer software package for speech analysis in phonetics.[4] It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various versions of Unix, Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). The program supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

Version history[edit]

Praat icon until 2020
VersionDateMain
3.15 December 1995
4.015 October 2001
4.15 June 2003Mac OS X edition, More than 99 percent of the source code distributed under the General Public Licence.
5.010 December 2007
5.131 January 2009
5.229 October 2010
5.315 October 2011
5.44 October 2014
6.028 October 2015
6.113 July 2019

References[edit]

  1. ^Boersma, Paul; van Heuven, Vincent (2001). 'Speak and unSpeak with Praat'(PDF). Glot International. 5 (9/10): 341–347.
  2. ^'Release 6.1.41'. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  3. ^'License'. Phonetic Sciences | Praat. Retrieved 3 September 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^'Praat: doing phonetics by computer'. Retrieved 20 September 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

  • Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer — Official site
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Praat&oldid=986550140'

This installation steps assumes that you have Praat installed on your computer.

Praat Voice Analysis

  1. Download the plugin here

  2. Extract the zip and put the folder 'plugin_VocalToolkit' in your Praat preferences directory.
    You can execute this command in a Praat script window to know where your preferences folder is:
  3. On some Mac OSX versions the Library folder is hidden. If you can't find it, go to Finder and select the Go menu, hold down Option key and Library will display. Usually the preferences folder is here:
    • Mac: '/Users/(UserName)/Library/Preferences/Praat Prefs/'
    • Windows XP: 'C:Documents and Settings(UserName)Praat'
    • Windows Vista and later: 'C:Users(UserName)Praat'
    • Linux: '/UserName/.praat-dir/'

  4. Two dropdown menus, Copy and Process, will be added when opening Praat. They will appear if one or more Sounds are selected in the list of objects.

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