Intro

This is an introductory tutorial to Praat, a computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis. You are advised to work through all of this tutorial.

You can read this tutorial sequentially with the help of the “1 >” and “< 1” buttons, or go to the desired information by clicking on the blue links.

  Intro 1. How to get a sound: record, read, formula.
  Intro 2. What to do with a sound: write, view.
  Intro 3. Spectral analysis
  spectrograms: view, configure, query, print, the Spectrogram object.
  spectral slices: view, configure, the Spectrum object.
  Intro 4. Pitch analysis
  pitch contours: view, configure, query, print, the Pitch object.
  Intro 5. Formant analysis
  formant contours: view, configure, query, the Formant object.
  Intro 6. Intensity analysis
  intensity contours: view, configure, query, the Intensity object.
  Intro 7. Annotation
  Intro 8. Manipulation: of pitch, duration, intensity, formants.

There are also more specialized tutorials:

  Phonetics:
  • Voice analysis (jitter, shimmer, noise): Voice
  • Listening experiments: ExperimentMFC
  • Sound files
  • Filtering
  • Source-filter synthesis
  • Articulatory synthesis
  Learning:
  • Feedforward neural networks
  • OT learning
  Statistics:
  • Principal component analysis
  • Multidimensional scaling
  • Discriminant analysis
  General:
  • Scripting
  • Demo window
  • Printing

## The authors

The Praat program was created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetics Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. Home page: `https://praat.org` or `https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat`.

For questions and suggestions, mail to the Praat discussion list, which is reachable from the Praat home page, or directly to `paul.boersma@uva.nl`.

### Links to this page

- Acknowledgments
- Formulas 1.7. Formulas for modification
- Formulas 8. Attributes of objects
- pitch floor
- Sound
- SoundEditor
- Speech recognition
- Statistics
- time domain
- Types of objects
- waveform
- What was new in 3.9?