
Praat is a portable scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. Praat analyzes mono signals. But within certain limits, stereo signals can be recorded and saved, opened, and played back in stereo. The modest support for stereo signals that Praat does provide is there for the convenience of colleagues who have their speech material in stereo form. In fact, outside the lab, it is almost impossible nowadays to produce mono tape recordings with standard equipment and standard connecting cables.No installation is required to use this tool.
Praat is a carefully created software solution aimed
at those who want to analyze, synthesize and manipulate speech.
Moreover, with this tool you can generate high quality images which you
can export and insert into scientific papers or personal studies.
The application doesn’t rely on looks to do its job
and you should be aware of this before you dive into it. It’s comprised
of two main windows, one that allows you to manage the project itself
and the other which houses the image you create after processing the
audio.
To create a short list of what this implies, Praat
enables you to perform spectral, pitch, formant and intensity analysis,
as well as study jitter, shimmer and voice breaks.
Praat is designed for
those who are at least familiar with how a soundwave looks and how it
can be processed, although, if this is not the case, the application
supplies rich and elaborate documentation which you can study.
A spectrogram that is associated with a loaded audio
file is displayed in an editor and it’s from there that you can access
the tools needed to perform the aforementioned analysis types. Though
the interface design is rudimentary.
Praat gains in the fact that it is
purpose orientated, meaning that a feature is not made to look good but
function properly and deliver accurate results.
Since Praat works solely with audio files, it’s
appropriate that it offers you the means to convert files into different
formats or enhance certain characteristics that they have. With it,
it’s possible to export a loaded audio file into WAV, AIFF, AIFC, NIST
or FLAC format, as well as to a raw 16, 24 or 32-bit raw endian file.
Apart from this, you can also convert a track to
mono or stereo, extract all its channels or a single one and resample it
with a different frequency.
With the above to consider and much more to discover about Praat, it’s
safe to say that if you’re familiar with the technical implications of
speech analysis and want to study it in depth then it is a more than
capable tool.

Platform: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10
License: GPL/Freeware
Author: Website
Size: 5.84MB

SHA256: 05cbfd55c72142f45e84d59de2a213710d759d0121e795e830857895a1556f7f
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