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Judging from mentions spotted on the Internet, Praat (Dutch for 'talk'), created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam, is currently among the most popular of free, downloadable speech analysis software packages. It is used in ESL courses for relatively basic functions, like making waveforms for students to compare their pronunciation against that of a native-speaker model.
It is used in introductory phonetics classes for spectrogram making, pitch tracks, and other functions we have been using WASP for. And it is used for more complex kinds of analysis by those who are at an advanced level in their study of phonetics and know a bit about computer programming and 'script' writing. So Praat is highly flexible; you can use it to good advantage whatever your current level is. |
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