One of the Editors in Praat, for viewing a LongSound object.

This viewer allows you:

•  to view and hear parts of the sound as it is on disk;
•  to copy a selected part as a Sound object to the list of objects, so that you can perform analyses on it or save it to a smaller sound file;
•  to copy a selected part as a Sound object to the Sound clipboard, so that you can paste it into another Sound object that you are viewing in a SoundEditor.

To label and segment the LongSound object, use the TextGridEditor instead (see LongSound).

The display and playback of the samples is restricted to 60 seconds at a time, for reasons of speed (although you can change this number with LongSound prefs from the main Preferences menu; the sound file itself can contain several hours of sound.

Links to this page

• Intro 3.1. Viewing a spectrogram
• LongSound: View
• Types of objects