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To download the latest version of the MacOS X edition of Praat, which runs on System 10.4 and higher (and on PowerPC as well as Intel processors), download the following disk image or StuffIt archive:
(if you have System 10.2 or 10.3, try Praat 5.1.19 (dmg or sit) of 21 October 2009; if you have System 10.1, try Praat 4.1.13 of 22 October 2003; if you do not have MacOS X, download the MacOS 7, 8 or 9 edition)
If your web browser does not open the .dmg file, double-click it. You will see a disk icon called PraatDisk. When you open it you will see the program Praat or Praat.app. You can drag this to your Applications folder. If you cannot open the .dmg file, try opening the .sit file instead with StuffIt Expander (you can use any Expander version except 8.0).
To start up the Praat program, just double-click it. If you use Praat for the first time, choose Intro from the Help menu.
If you want to see phonetic characters on your screen and in your clipboard, you have to install the Charis SIL and/or the Doulos SIL font (2009 version), as well as the SIL Doulos IPA fonts (1993/1996 version). All these fonts were created by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. To install them, first download the archives:
Then unpack the .zip files, if your web browser has not already done that. This will give you folders called CharisSIL4, DoulosSIL4, and SIL IPA93 Fonts. When you open these folders, you will see TrueType fonts such as CharisSILR.ttf, CharisSILB.ttf, CharisSILI.ttf, CharisSILBI.ttf, DoulosSILR.ttf, SILDoulos IPA93.fam™, SILManuscript IPA93.fam™, and SILSophia IPA93.fam™. Drag these eight fonts to the /Library/Fonts folder in the top folder on your hard disk, if you have write access to that folder. Alternatively, you could put the fonts in the Library/Fonts folder in your home folder, although other users of your computer cannot use them in that case.
Sounds are recorded into a buffer whose size you can set with "Sound recording preferences".
From version 5.1.12 on, the best way to produce pictures is to use the clipboard or "Write to PDF file..." in the Picture window, at least if you have System 10.4 or higher. Both the clipboard and "Write to PDF file..." produce PDF pictures. Most word-processing programs newer than 2006 accept such PDF pictures, at least on the Mac; if you use Microsoft Word 2008, make sure to save your document as a .docx file, because if you save it as a .doc file, Word will convert the inserted PDF pictures into mediocre bitmaps.