1. Downloading the Raspberry Pi edition

To download the latest version of the Raspberry Pi edition of Praat, click on one of the following compressed archives:

• 32-bit edition (ARMv7 processor, e.g. the Pi 4B): praat6427_rpi-armv7.tar.gz (27 January 2025; 24.9 MB)
• 64-bit edition (ARM64/Aarch64 processor, e.g. the Pi 400): praat6434_linux-armv64.tar.gz (20 May 2025; 27.2 MB; this is the general Linux ARM64 edition)

Unpack with gunzip and tar xvf. This will create the executable file praat. You can remove the tar file.

2. How to start

Praat will work fine wherever it is on your disk; in the Terminal window, just navigate to the folder where the executable praat is, then type ./praat (on some systems, clicking the icon could also work, but more often it won’t). If you use Praat for the first time, choose Intro from the Help menu.

3. Phonetic symbols

If you want to see good phonetic characters, you have to install the Charis SIL and Doulos SIL fonts:

If you cannot install those packages, you can download the two fonts from Summer Institute of Linguistics and follow the installation instructions there.

4. Running Praat from the command line

To run Praat from a terminal window, write a Praat script and specify that script on the command line, optionally with arguments, e.g.:

For details see Calling from the command line in the Scripting manual.

5. Known possible problems, and their solution

5a. Sound recording does not work

We do not yet support the microphone, but you should be able to get audio output to work by starting up the JACK daemon, for instance: