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Praat (the Dutch word for "talk" or "speak") is a free scientific computer software package for the analysis of speech in phonetics

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I have a spectrogram of the word "going" and of the word "destroy" (the "troy" part) by the same speaker. Is it possible to tell if there's an /oʊ/ in "going"? (...
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New to Praat Scripting here, so I am not entirely sure if I am going about this in the most efficient manner. I am using a Praat script to extract formant values at specific time intervals like 10%, ...
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The 2 channels are pretty much the same. Does converting stereo to mono differ from extracting 1 channel? Is one approach better than the other? Thanks in advance!
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I wonder if there is any tool for automatically annotating L2-semi-spontaneous speech (practically said, to produce a TextGrid file from a sound file (.wav) and a text file containing the ...
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I created an excel file with the following columns: start_time, end_time, transcript, quotative, tag. The start_time and end_time columns indicate the boundaries of each interval. I turned this excel ...
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I am trying to measure formant trajectories in /lV/ sequences. I started by extracting values at 11 temporal points, but I am getting a lot of incorrect values, as if Praat is struggling to recognize ...
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Assisting with a project and they need me to extract the speech from one speaker in an interview and make it its own audio file. The audio I have are 1-1.5 hr interview recordings, and it is generally ...
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I made a textgrid of the sentence "I quite like cheese a lot." and created three tiers and marked the sentence, word (cheese) and the nucleus of cheese to examine the f0. Then I used a ...
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I am trying to write a script that extract the duration of intervals (in ms) which have a label (in this case "silent") from a single tier. There are several intervals labeled as "...
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Does anyone know of a Praat script or method for plotting the rate of change of vocal pitch? At a pinch I could do the plotting in Excel if I could extract the raw time / pitch data.
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I'm trying to understand some basics, hope this is an ok question. Here's a recording of me producing /i/, /ɛ/, /a/: https://namakajiri.net/misc/i%c9%9ba.webm nevermind the transition between the ...
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I'm currently using a Praat script I found online and I would like to cite it in my thesis. Does anyone know whether there is a specific APA format for citing Praat scripts? I've tried looking into ...
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I have the .wav and corresponding .TextGrid files in one directory. What's a quick way to extract/slice sound file intervals labeled with the Chinese character in question? I'd then want to store ...
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I am using an existing praat script for speech rate (Nivja de Jong and Ton Wempe, 2008) that outputs speech rate along with other variables in the Praat info window. It saves the files it uses compute ...
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I am analyzing dyadic conversations for speech characteristics through pre-written script. I spoke with an expert in speech analysis prior to data collection as an introduction to praat. He suggested ...
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Is there is a way to differentiate between [s] and [ʪ] using spectral analysis (Pratt or spectrum view or any other software)? Is there is any particular pattern that only appears with the [ʪ]? [ʪ] ...
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I have an UHD monitor and the Praat GUI gets squished and messed up because of it (see below) I basically have to change the resolution of my screen to see the buttons properly. Is there a UHD/4k ...
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I need to do phonetic analysis of several dozen brief tokens. Specifically, I want to extract FFT/LPC profiles of fricatives, and would like to experiment with different algorithms for creating ...
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When I inspect a sound file in Praat, I see the following picture: I understand that Praat creates a ny x nx matrix using these values, and that 'nx' refers to the number of frames in the WAV file. ...
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While analysing pitches with Praat, I'm often faced with the problem, which is, I must modify the F0 data manually since there are always some octave up points or other points which is impossible to ...
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I have a praat script: #!/usr/bin/praat --run form Add VOT sentence Filename_of_textgrid /mount/arbeitsdaten31/studenten1/vernonhn/Thesis/MASTER_code/autovot-master/experiments/data/ALC/train/...
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I'm wondering for how long the voicing persists into closure here, if at all. At about 50% into the closure I would say it's noise only from there on, nevermind F1. But what about the oscillations ...
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I’m teaching a seminar crash course in linguistics to first year undergrads next term. It’s just 3 one hour lectures, and should be fun and engaging. I want it to be hands-on, and give students a ...
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I have some files. wav in the object window, how can I save them automatically? I found this script but I get an error: directoryName$ = chooseDirectory$: "Choose a directory to save all the new ...
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I'm not competent in Praat scripting and am wondering if someone could help me with what I believe should be a pretty simple task. I'm looking to extract .wav and TextGrids for all tokens of a given ...
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