Praat 6.3.18

Praat is a speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer. Praat can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your publications. Praat was created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetics Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. Some of Praat’s most prominent features are: Speech analysis Speech synthesis Speech labelling Grammar models Statistical analysis

Tags speech analysis
License GNU GPLv3
State development

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Recent Releases

6.3.1819 Sep 2023 03:15 minor feature: @SpeechSynthesizer: included the new version of eSpeak (development 1.52), which has 133 languages. @@Add to menu...@: you can now add separators, headers and indented submenus to menus in editor windows.
6.3.1711 Sep 2023 03:15 minor feature: SoundEditor: three Paste options, namely ##Paste before selection# (Shift-Command-V). ##Paste over selection# (Option-Command-V), and the already existing ##Paste after selection#. (now Command-V). All editor windows: extended the old single-level Undo and Redo to a ten-level Undo and Redo. Scripting: the new @`runSystem ` and @`runSubprocess ` return the output of the system command or subprocess. Scripting: @`runSystem`, @`runSystem `, @`runSubprocess` and @`runSubprocess `. Report any error messages generated by the system command or subprocess. PointEditor (pulses): settable ##Period floor#, ##Period ceiling#. ##Maximum period factor# and ##Maximum amplitude factor#, for jitter and shimmer measurements.
6.3.1630 Aug 2023 03:15 minor bugfix: Sound analysis areas: better visible contrast in intensity curve (green on lime). Windows: repaired a introduced in 6.3.10 (as a result of the repair mentioned there) by which the Demo window would be insensitive to arrow keys. SpeechSynthesizer: repaired a that caused ##Get phonemes from text...# to return empty text. Repaired a that caused Praat to crash when you supplied 0. For the channel number in @@Sound: Get nearest zero crossing...@.
6.3.1524 Aug 2023 07:25 minor bugfix: SpeechSynthesizer: improvements in ##Get phonemes from text...#. Scripting: @`part#`, @`part##`, @`selected #`.
6.3.1405 Aug 2023 03:15 minor bugfix: Repaired a that occurred when saving a @FormantPath to disk.
6.3.1301 Aug 2023 06:05 minor bugfix: Repaired a introduced in 6.3.12 by which a link to a file wasn t found in external manual pages.
6.3.1226 Jul 2023 16:46 minor feature: Improvements in manual, including corrections on layout problems introduced in version 6.3.11.