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Praat

Brief description

Praat is a program that can be used to analyse, synthesize and manipulate speech, and to create high-quality images of visual representations of phonetic features like speech signals and spectograms.

Guides and practical introductions

• Introductory tutorial to Praat
  Online version of the Praat Help menus.
• Beginner's guide to Praat
  Tutorial by Sidney Wood (Lund University).

Availability

Praat is available on VU PCs for students and staff members of the department of Language, Literature and Communication of the Faculty of Humanities.
A free download is available on the Praat website for home use.

More information

See the website Praat: doing Phonetics by computer