Praat

Praat (/prɑːt/; Dutch: [praːt] (listen), "talk") is a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics.[4] It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various versions of Unix, Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). The program supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

Praat

Developer(s)	Paul Boersma and David Weenink
Initial release	1991[1]
Stable release	6.1.15 / May 20, 2020 (2020-05-20)[2]
Repository	github.com/praat/praat
Written in	C, C++, Objective-C
Operating system	Windows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available in	English
Type	Free software
License	GPLv2[3]
Website	www.praat.org

Version history

Version	Date	Main
3.1	5 December 1995
4.0	15 October 2001
4.1	5 June 2003	Mac OS X edition, More than 99 percent of the source code distributed under the General Public Licence.
5.0	10 December 2007
5.1	31 January 2009
5.2	29 October 2010
5.3	15 October 2011
5.4	4 October 2014
6.0	28 October 2015
6.1	13 July 2019

References

1. Boersma, Paul; van Heuven, Vincent (2001). "Speak and unSpeak with Praat" (PDF). Glot International. 5 (9/10): 341–347.
2. "Releases". Github. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
3. "License". Phonetic Sciences | Praat. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
4. "Praat: doing phonetics by computer". Retrieved 20 September 2017.

External links

• Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer — Official site