This is an introductory tutorial to Praat, a computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis. You are advised to work through all of this tutorial.
You can read this tutorial sequentially with the help of the “1 >” and “< 1” buttons, or go to the desired information by clicking on the blue links.
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Intro 1. How to get a sound: record, read, formula.
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Intro 2. What to do with a sound: write, view.
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Intro 3. Spectral analysis
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spectrograms: view, configure, query, print, the Spectrogram object.
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spectral slices: view, configure, the Spectrum object.
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Intro 4. Pitch analysis
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pitch contours: view, configure, query, print, the Pitch object.
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Intro 5. Formant analysis
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formant contours: view, configure, query, the Formant object.
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Intro 6. Intensity analysis
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intensity contours: view, configure, query, the Intensity object.
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Intro 7. Annotation
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Intro 8. Manipulation: of pitch, duration, intensity, formants.
There are also more specialized tutorials:
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Phonetics:
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• Voice analysis (jitter, shimmer, noise): Voice
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• Listening experiments: ExperimentMFC
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• Sound files
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• Filtering
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• Source-filter synthesis
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• Articulatory synthesis
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Learning:
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• Feedforward neural networks
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• OT learning
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Statistics:
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• Principal component analysis
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• Multidimensional scaling
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• Discriminant analysis
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General:
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• Scripting
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• Demo window
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• Printing
The authors
The Praat program was created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetics Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. Home page: http://www.praat.org or https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/.
For questions and suggestions, mail to the Praat discussion list, which is reachable from the Praat home page, or directly to paul.boersma@uva.nl.
Links to this page
© Paul Boersma, 2011