Praat

Category Audio Production / Experimental
Version 5.3.49
Format App
Compatibility PraatMacOS X UB
Licence Freeware
Price Free
Rating
Updated On May 14, 2013
Total Downloads 5,116
Mac Downloads 3,011
Category Audio Production / Experimental
Version 5.3.49
Format App
Compatibility PraatWindows XP
Licence Freeware
Price Free
Rating
Updated On May 14, 2013
Total Downloads 5,116
PC Downloads 2,105

Doing phonetics by computer

Praat is a computer program written by Paul Boersma and David Weenink from the Institute of Phonetic Sciences (University of Amsterdam) with which phoneticians can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech.
Praat Praat v 5.3.49 May 14, 2013 MacOS X UB
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TextGrid window: alignment of the sound and the annotation in an interval, via Espeak.
Scripting: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.32 that could cause very slow running of scripts.
Praat Praat Praat v 5.3.48 May 2, 2013 MacOS X UB
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Scripting: variable-substitution-free object selection and file writing.
Scripting: selectObject and removeObject can select or remove multiple objects at a time.
Praat Praat v 5.3.47 Apr 25, 2013 MacOS X UB
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OTGrammar: included Giorgio Magri's (2012) update rule (weighted all up, high down).
computer Praat v 5.3.46 Apr 22, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Scripting: variable-substitution-free procedure calls.
Linux: made the Save menu compatible with Ubuntu 12.04.
download Praat v 5.3.45 Apr 18, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
More parts of the manual reflect variable-substitution-free scripting.
mac Praat v 5.3.44 Apr 8, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Create Sound as pure tone....
First steps towards variable-substitution-free scripting: the do, do$, writeInfo and appendInfo functions.
windows Praat v 5.3.43 Mar 28, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Read and write stereo Kay sound files.
Phonetic symbols ?, ? and ?.
Network: Normalize weights..., List weights..., Weights down to Table....
macintosh Praat v 5.3.42 Mar 2, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Repaired some minor bugs regarding synchronization between multiple windows.
pc Praat v 5.3.41 Feb 11, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Linux: repaired a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing the Info window or a script window.
Praat v 5.3.40 Feb 3, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Windows: better handling (in the LongSound window) of sounds that are too long to play.
Mac: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when closing the Strings window.
Linux: made audio output work again on 32-bit Linux.
more...
Praat v 5.3.39 Jan 8, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
Formant & Spectrogram: To IntensityTier...
Praat v 5.3.38 Jan 5, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
ExperimentMFC: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.36 that caused sound to fail to play completely if the screen did not blank.
Praat v 5.3.37 Jan 2, 2013 MacOS X UB
Download
5.3.37 (2 January 2013)

ExperimentMFC: after screen blanking, reaction times count from when the response buttons appear.

5.3.36 (1 January 2013)

ExperimentMFC: made it possible to blank the screen while the sound is playing.
Praat v 5.3.35 Dec 9, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
SpeechSynthesizer: made it possible to have more than one at a time.
Linux: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.
Praat v 5.3.34 Nov 22, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
5.3.34 (21 November 2012)

Windows: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.
The new Sound: Combine to stereo can now work with Sounds of different durations, as the old could.
Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when creating a SpeechSynthesizer.

5.3.33 (20 November 2012)

Sound: Combine to stereo can now combine any number of Sounds into a new Sound whose number of channels is the sum of the numbers of channels of the original Sounds.
ERP: Down to Sound.
Praat v 5.3.32 Oct 18, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
Sound window: corrected the working of the "by window" scaling option.
Praat v 5.3.31 Oct 11, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
ERP: Down to Table...
Linux: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash after closing a file selector window for saving.
Praat v 5.3.30 Oct 7, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
Circumvented a rare Windows bug that could cause Praat to start to write 1.5 as 1,5 in some countries after opening a strange directory.
Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause Praat to crash when quitting.
Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause the Objects window to look weird after resizing.
Praat v 5.3.29 Oct 1, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
EEG: Draw scalp..., including gray legend.
Made the new Sound scaling options available for LongSounds.
Praat v 5.3.28 Sep 29, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that made Praat crash on OSX 10.5.
Praat v 5.3.27 Sep 27, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
5.3.27 (27 September 2012)
Corrected a couple of small bugs.

5.3.26 (26 September 2012)
Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that prevented Praat from running in batch mode.
Praat v 5.3.25 Sep 26, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
EEG: view of scalp distribution takes scaling options into account.
Linux: swipable Sound window and manual.
Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 whereby TextGrids could not be edited.
Praat v 5.3.24 Sep 25, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
More kinds of vertical scaling in e.g. Sound and EEG windows.
Praat v 5.3.23 Aug 8, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
Mac: removed a bug introduced in September 2011 that could cause incorrect behaviour of regular expressions since July 2012.
Praat v 5.3.22 Jul 24, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
Linux: removed a bug introduced in 5.3.21 that could cause Praat to crash when opening files.
Neural networks: correct writing and reading of learning settings.
Praat v 5.3.21 Jul 11, 2012 MacOS X UB
Download
  • Linux: better folder choice in file selector window for opening files.

  • Repaired a bug that caused Praat to crash when opening a ManPages file on some platforms.
    • Praat v 5.3.20 Jul 5, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EEG: Replace TextGrid.
    Praat v 5.3.19 Jun 25, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
  • Fixed random crashes when loading Project Presets.

    • - Fixed problem in MFX-Frog Filter plug-in.
    - Added a Web Access Registration in the 'Utility' menu when MAGMA is unauthorized.
    Praat v 5.3.18 Jun 18, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Corrected a bug in Sound: Change gender... that caused a part of the sound not to be changed.
    Praat v 5.3.17 Jun 13, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EEG window: extent autoscaling by window.
    ERPTier: Remove events between...
    Praat v 5.3.16 May 25, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Praat v 5.3.15 May 11, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Improvements in clipboards, PDF and EPS files.
    Praat v 5.3.14 May 1, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Linux: Tab shortcut for playing the selection.
    EPS files: higher minimum image resolution for spectrograms (300 instead of 106 dpi).
    Praat v 5.3.13 Apr 15, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EG: Extract part...
    Praat v 5.3.12 Apr 6, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Praat picture file: allow drawings with more than a million points.
    Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10 (support for unusual sampling frequencies when playing LongSounds).
    Praat v 5.3.11 Mar 30, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EEG: a selected ERPTier can extract events on the basis of a column of a selected Table.
    Praat v 5.3.10 Mar 13, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    5.3.10 (12 March 2012)
    EEG: Concatenate.

    5.3.09 (10 March 2012)
    Better text-to-speech.
    Praat v 5.3.08 Mar 6, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Removed a bug introduced in 5.3.07 that could cause Praat to crash when viewing a LongSound.
    Praat v 5.3.07 Mar 5, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Praat can now save Sounds as 24-bit and 32-bit WAV files.
    Praat v 5.3.06 Mar 1, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Not available
    Praat v 5.3.05 Feb 22, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    SpeechSynthesizer (New menu ? Sound): text-to-speech.
    EEG: better scalp distribution drawing for both 32-channel and 64-channel recordings.
    Praat v 5.3.04 Jan 13, 2012 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EEG: draw scalp distribution.
    Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10.
    Praat v 5.3.03 Nov 22, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    EEG: filtering, editing, more viewing.
    Praat v 5.3.02 Nov 9, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.01 that could cause the PitchTier or PointProcess window to crash.
    Corrected a bug that could cause the Info window to freeze after an error message in a script window.
    Praat v 5.3.01 Nov 3, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Macintosh and Windows: better window positioning if the Dock or Task Bar is on the left or right.
    IPA symbol: you can now use \.f for the half-length sign (ˑ).
    EEG window.
    Praat v 5.3 Oct 17, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Not available
    Praat v 5.2.46 Oct 8, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Corrected the same very old bug as in 5.2.44, but now also for opening and saving files.
    Many better messages.
    Praat v 5.2.45 Oct 1, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Spectrum window: Move cursor to nearest peak.
    Table: Save as comma-separated file....
    Windows: you can now change the font size of the script window.
    Windows scripting: the Info window now updates while you are writing to it.
    Windows: error messages now stay at the front so that you never have to click away an invisible message window anymore.
    Praat v 5.2.44 Sep 24, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Corrected a very old bug in the history mechanism (the button title wouldn't always show up).
    Praat v 5.2.43 Sep 22, 2011 MacOS X UB
    Download
    Linux: you can now change the font size of the script window.
    Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when opening an already open file in the script window.
    less...
    Praat Praat v 5.3.49 May 14, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    TextGrid window: alignment of the sound and the annotation in an interval, via Espeak.
    Scripting: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.32 that could cause very slow running of scripts.
    Praat Praat Praat v 5.3.48 May 2, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Scripting: variable-substitution-free object selection and file writing.
    Scripting: selectObject and removeObject can select or remove multiple objects at a time.
    Praat Praat v 5.3.47 Apr 25, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    OTGrammar: included Giorgio Magri's (2012) update rule (weighted all up, high down).
    computer Praat v 5.3.46 Apr 22, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Scripting: variable-substitution-free procedure calls.
    Linux: made the Save menu compatible with Ubuntu 12.04.
    download Praat v 5.3.45 Apr 18, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    More parts of the manual reflect variable-substitution-free scripting.
    mac Praat v 5.3.44 Apr 8, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Create Sound as pure tone....
    First steps towards variable-substitution-free scripting: the do, do$, writeInfo and appendInfo functions.
    windows Praat v 5.3.43 Mar 28, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Read and write stereo Kay sound files.
    Phonetic symbols ?, ? and ?.
    Network: Normalize weights..., List weights..., Weights down to Table....
    macintosh Praat v 5.3.42 Mar 2, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Repaired some minor bugs regarding synchronization between multiple windows.
    pc Praat v 5.3.41 Feb 11, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Linux: repaired a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing the Info window or a script window.
    Praat v 5.3.40 Feb 3, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Windows: better handling (in the LongSound window) of sounds that are too long to play.
    Mac: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when closing the Strings window.
    Linux: made audio output work again on 32-bit Linux.
    more...
    Praat v 5.3.39 Jan 8, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    Formant & Spectrogram: To IntensityTier...
    Praat v 5.3.38 Jan 5, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    ExperimentMFC: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.36 that caused sound to fail to play completely if the screen did not blank.
    Praat v 5.3.37 Jan 2, 2013 Windows XP
    Download
    5.3.37 (2 January 2013)

    ExperimentMFC: after screen blanking, reaction times count from when the response buttons appear.

    5.3.36 (1 January 2013)

    ExperimentMFC: made it possible to blank the screen while the sound is playing.
    Praat v 5.3.35 Dec 9, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    SpeechSynthesizer: made it possible to have more than one at a time.
    Linux: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.
    Praat v 5.3.34 Nov 22, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    5.3.34 (21 November 2012)

    Windows: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.
    The new Sound: Combine to stereo can now work with Sounds of different durations, as the old could.
    Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when creating a SpeechSynthesizer.

    5.3.33 (20 November 2012)

    Sound: Combine to stereo can now combine any number of Sounds into a new Sound whose number of channels is the sum of the numbers of channels of the original Sounds.
    ERP: Down to Sound.
    Praat v 5.3.32 Oct 18, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Sound window: corrected the working of the "by window" scaling option.
    Praat v 5.3.31 Oct 11, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    ERP: Down to Table...
    Linux: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash after closing a file selector window for saving.
    Praat v 5.3.30 Oct 7, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Circumvented a rare Windows bug that could cause Praat to start to write 1.5 as 1,5 in some countries after opening a strange directory.
    Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause Praat to crash when quitting.
    Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause the Objects window to look weird after resizing.
    Praat v 5.3.29 Oct 1, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: Draw scalp..., including gray legend.
    Made the new Sound scaling options available for LongSounds.
    Praat v 5.3.28 Sep 29, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that made Praat crash on OSX 10.5.
    Praat v 5.3.27 Sep 27, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    5.3.27 (27 September 2012)
    Corrected a couple of small bugs.

    5.3.26 (26 September 2012)
    Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that prevented Praat from running in batch mode.
    Praat v 5.3.25 Sep 26, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: view of scalp distribution takes scaling options into account.
    Linux: swipable Sound window and manual.
    Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 whereby TextGrids could not be edited.
    Praat v 5.3.24 Sep 25, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    More kinds of vertical scaling in e.g. Sound and EEG windows.
    Praat v 5.3.23 Aug 8, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Mac: removed a bug introduced in September 2011 that could cause incorrect behaviour of regular expressions since July 2012.
    Praat v 5.3.22 Jul 24, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Linux: removed a bug introduced in 5.3.21 that could cause Praat to crash when opening files.
    Neural networks: correct writing and reading of learning settings.
    Praat v 5.3.21 Jul 11, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
  • Linux: better folder choice in file selector window for opening files.

  • Repaired a bug that caused Praat to crash when opening a ManPages file on some platforms.
    • Praat v 5.3.20 Jul 5, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: Replace TextGrid.
    Praat v 5.3.19 Jun 25, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
  • Fixed random crashes when loading Project Presets.

    • - Fixed problem in MFX-Frog Filter plug-in.
    - Added a Web Access Registration in the 'Utility' menu when MAGMA is unauthorized.
    Praat v 5.3.18 Jun 18, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Corrected a bug in Sound: Change gender... that caused a part of the sound not to be changed.
    Praat v 5.3.17 Jun 13, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG window: extent autoscaling by window.
    ERPTier: Remove events between...
    Praat v 5.3.16 May 25, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Praat v 5.3.15 May 11, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Improvements in clipboards, PDF and EPS files.
    Praat v 5.3.14 May 1, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Linux: Tab shortcut for playing the selection.
    EPS files: higher minimum image resolution for spectrograms (300 instead of 106 dpi).
    Praat v 5.3.13 Apr 15, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EG: Extract part...
    Praat v 5.3.12 Apr 6, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Praat picture file: allow drawings with more than a million points.
    Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10 (support for unusual sampling frequencies when playing LongSounds).
    Praat v 5.3.11 Mar 30, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: a selected ERPTier can extract events on the basis of a column of a selected Table.
    Praat v 5.3.10 Mar 13, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    5.3.10 (12 March 2012)
    EEG: Concatenate.

    5.3.09 (10 March 2012)
    Better text-to-speech.
    Praat v 5.3.08 Mar 6, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Removed a bug introduced in 5.3.07 that could cause Praat to crash when viewing a LongSound.
    Praat v 5.3.07 Mar 5, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Praat can now save Sounds as 24-bit and 32-bit WAV files.
    Praat v 5.3.06 Mar 1, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    Not available
    Praat v 5.3.05 Feb 22, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    SpeechSynthesizer (New menu ? Sound): text-to-speech.
    EEG: better scalp distribution drawing for both 32-channel and 64-channel recordings.
    Praat v 5.3.04 Jan 13, 2012 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: draw scalp distribution.
    Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10.
    Praat v 5.3.03 Nov 22, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    EEG: filtering, editing, more viewing.
    Praat v 5.3.02 Nov 9, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.01 that could cause the PitchTier or PointProcess window to crash.
    Corrected a bug that could cause the Info window to freeze after an error message in a script window.
    Praat v 5.3.01 Nov 3, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Macintosh and Windows: better window positioning if the Dock or Task Bar is on the left or right.
    IPA symbol: you can now use \.f for the half-length sign (ˑ).
    EEG window.
    Praat v 5.3 Oct 17, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Not available
    Praat v 5.2.46 Oct 8, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Corrected the same very old bug as in 5.2.44, but now also for opening and saving files.
    Many better messages.
    Praat v 5.2.45 Oct 1, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Spectrum window: Move cursor to nearest peak.
    Table: Save as comma-separated file....
    Windows: you can now change the font size of the script window.
    Windows scripting: the Info window now updates while you are writing to it.
    Windows: error messages now stay at the front so that you never have to click away an invisible message window anymore.
    Praat v 5.2.44 Sep 24, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Corrected a very old bug in the history mechanism (the button title wouldn't always show up).
    Praat v 5.2.43 Sep 22, 2011 Windows XP
    Download
    Linux: you can now change the font size of the script window.
    Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when opening an already open file in the script window.
    less...
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