Praat 5.1.40

License / Price:

Freeware / Free

Last Updated:

2010-07-14

Operating System:

Mac OS X

Publisher:

Paul Boersma and David Weenink

With Praat, phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and Create high-quality pictures for their articles and doctoral theses.

key features:

- Speech analysis:
-spectral analysis (spectrograms)
-pitch analysis
-formant analysis
-Intensity analysis
- jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
-cochleagram
- excitation pattern
- Speech synthesis:
-from pitch, formant, and intensity
-articulatory synthesis
-Listening experiments:
-identification and discrimination tests
-Labelling and segmentation:
-label Intervals and time points on multiple tiers
-use Phonetic alphabet
-use sound files Up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)
-Speech manipulation:
-change pitch and duration contours
-filtering
-Learning algorithms:
-feedforward neural networks
-discrete and stochastic Optimality Theory
-Statistics:
-multidimensional scaling
-principal component analysis
-discriminant analysis
-Graphics:
-high quality for your articles and thesis
- produce Encapsulated PostScript files
-integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols
-Programmability:
-easy programmable scripting language
- communicate with other programs
-(the sendpraat source code)
- create hypertext manuals with sound I/O
- Portability:
- machine-independent binary files
- read and write many sound and other file types
-Configurability:
-grow or shrink menus
-save prefs for fonts, views, sound devices.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher Platform: PowerPC / Intel

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