In this course, we use the Praat speech analysis software, developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
Downloading Praat
- Follow the instructions on the main Praat page
Praat manuals and tutorials
Note: Some of the manuals and tutorials were written for older versions of Praat, so you may find some small differences in the current version.- Ling 520 Praat handouts
(August 2008; PDF files)
- #1 - Downloading and installing Praat
- #2 - Basic introduction to Praat
- #3 - The Sound window: waveforms, spectrograms
- #4 - Recording a sound file in Praat [coming soon]
- #5 - Adding labels to a sound file [coming soon]
- Additional Praat resources that may be useful
- Beginners' guide to Praat, by Sidney Wood, Lund University (March 2005)
- For the ambitious: Praat script resources, from the UCLA Phonetics Lab