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: 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