Praat

Praat
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Developer(s) Paul Boersma and David Weenink, from the Institute of Phonetic Sciences - University of Amsterdam.
Initial release ?
Stable release 5.3.02 [±]
Written in C, C++
Operating system Windows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available in English
Type Science software
License GNU GPL
Website www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

Praat (also the Dutch word for "talk") is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It has been designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various Unix versions, Mac and Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). The program also supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

Version history

Version Date Main
3.1 December 5, 1995
4.0 October 15, 2001
4.1 June 5, 2003 MacOS X edition, More than 99 percent of the source code distributed under the General Public Licence.
5.0 December 10, 2007
5.1 January 31, 2009

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