Functionality The following gives you an idea of the features of the Praat program. The links take you into the web copy of the manual. The same manual is also available from Praat's Help …

As a Praat user you will want to know what type of processor is inside your computer. Knowing this is relevant for installing all academic software, i.e. not only Praat but also the most used …

Nov 7, 2025 · To install Praat, just drag the program Praat or Praat.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere else).

To accelerate menu commands in Praat, you can sometimes choose them with the keyboard, sometimes while also pressing the Command key, Option key, or Shift key. All of these …

This is one of the tutorials of the Praat program. It assumes you are familiar with the Intro. A script is a text that consists of menu commands and action commands. If you run the script (perhaps …

For each analysis window, Praat applies a Gaussian-like window, and computes the LPC coefficients with the algorithm by Burg, as given by Childers (1978) and Press et al. (1992).

When you create a TextGrid file parser and want to interpret the trigraphs in the correct way, it is advisable to have Praat do the conversion for you: read the TextGrid file into Praat, call the …

You can use all the Special symbols that you can use elsewhere in Praat, including mathematical symbols, Greek and Chinese letters, superscripts, and phonetic symbols.

You can cause a Praat script to prompt for arguments. The file playSine.praat may contain the following:

Jitter (ddp) This is the average absolute difference between consecutive differences between consecutive periods, divided by the average period. For the precise procedure, see …