Praat 5.0.34

With Praat, phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and create high-quality pictures for their articles and doctoral theses.
Information on Praat:
* Introductory tutorial: choose Intro from Praats Help menus.
* Extensive manuals and tutorials: in Praats Help menus.
* Beginners manuals by Sidney Wood and Pascal van Lieshout.
* Paul Boersmas publications on algorithms and tutorials.
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.