Functionality The following gives you an idea of the features of the Praat program. The links take you into the web copy of the manual. The same manual is also available from Praat's Help menus, in which case you can do searches.
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.
This page lists some beginner's manuals for Praat that were written by others than Paul Boersma and David Weenink; please don’t forget to read the Intro in Praat (under Help) as well.
Calling Praat from the command line: the new switch --send-or-form sends a script to a different already running GUI instance of Praat, like --send does, but takes no arguments (except for the name of the script file) and presents a form on the screen if the script has a form in it. More detailed manual page for fileNames$# ().
Praat will work fine wherever it is on your disk; just type ./praat into a terminal window after cd-ing to Praat’s folder. If Praat doesn’t start immediately (i.e. it may complain about missing .so files), then you may have to install one or more standard (graphics or audio) libraries on which Praat depends. On Ubuntu or Debian these may be:
Scripting the editors Scripting 7.1. Scripting an editor from a shell script (editor / endeditor) Scripting 7.2. Scripting an editor from within Scripting 8. Controlling Praat from another program Scripting 8.1. The sendpraat subroutine Scripting 8.2. The sendpraat program Scripting 9. Turning a script into a stand-alone program Scripting 10 ...