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.
-  Intro 1. How to get a sound: record, read, formula.
-  Intro 2. What to do with a sound: write, view.
-  Intro 3. Spectral analysis
-     spectrograms: view, configure, query, print, the Spectrogram object.
-     spectral slices: view, configure, the Spectrum object.
-  Intro 4. Pitch analysis
-     pitch contours: view, configure, query, print, the Pitch object.
-  Intro 5. Formant analysis
-     formant contours: view, configure, query, the Formant object.
-  Intro 6. Intensity analysis
-     intensity contours: view, configure, query, the Intensity object.
-  Intro 7. Annotation
-  Intro 8. Manipulation: of pitch, duration, intensity, formants.
There are also more specialized tutorials:
-  Phonetics:
-    • Voice analysis (jitter, shimmer, noise): Voice
-    • Listening experiments: ExperimentMFC
-    • Sound files
-    • Filtering
-    • Source-filter synthesis
-    • Articulatory synthesis
-  Learning:
-    • Feedforward neural networks
-    • OT learning
-  Statistics:
-    • Principal component analysis
-    • Multidimensional scaling
-    • Discriminant analysis
-  General:
-    • Scripting
-    • Demo window
-    • 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: https://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.
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