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Praat is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics.

Praat 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, GNU/Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). The program also supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

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Is it possible to set praat preferences automatically?

In the praat preferences menu it is possible to change the encoding of files written by Praat by using Praat > Preferences > Text writing preferences... My question whether it is possible to do this from within the script to guarantee that the user…
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Read TextGrid labels into a Strings object in Praat

I am stuck trying to figure out how to read the strings from a textgrid which is open in the window but not saved to the hard disk as a raw text file. My goal is to manipulate the strings and save them later. I want to do something like this but…
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load text from .txt into praat info window

I would like to read the information from a text file in the praat window. I can "echo" text to the window with: writeInfoLine: "Hello World" appendInfoLine: "Goodbye" But what I don't know how to do is to do the same thing if I have "Hello…
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Incomplete wav file from load.wave, saved by save.wave

If you record and save a wave file in R using the audio package, there is an error trying to load it again. The object is to store the audio files for later retrieval. library(audio) k = 3 # three seconds x <- rep(NA_real_, 44100*2*k) # record and…
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Extract text from a Praat pitch file to another text file

I was wondering whether some can help me with a tricky thing which is extracting times and frequency of a Praat Pitch contour to a txt file. I start from File type = "ooTextFile" Object class = "Pitch 1" xmin = 0 xmax = 1.592 nx = 159 dx =…
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Praat Integration in Python 2/3

I've been working on Praat for some audio analysis stuff. However, I found some libraries that use Praat in Python and would like to do the same. This site offers a lot of features that can be extracted when praat is used. I have followed he…
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Praat script to extract one value from voice report

I have a praat script in which a pitch object and a point process are created for an object. Then combining these 2 with my initial object returns me the voice report. I want to extract only the values of some fields and save them in a file, but I…
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Praat script to remove silence, cannot select and remove objects

I am new to praat, so maybe this is an easy question. I try to create a script in praat that will go through some objects in my object list with a for loop and will remove silent intervals. I have created this script that I will put in a for…
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How to do pitch replacement in praat?

I tried to replace the pitch, but nothing happened when I pressed "replace pitch tier"? In order to clone a pitch contour and apply it to a different signal (replacing its original pitch contour): select a sound in the objects window go to To…
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How can I get nested loops to work in Praat to detect onset in an entire directory?

This is my first question and I do my best to be clear. I have browsed the site without finding any former question that could help me out. I am trying to get the onset detection script in praat to loop for an entire directory. I have nested the…
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Praat and sox information script

How can I do the following? Sound object is selected save sound object as wav (as a temporary filename) run sox -i adsda.wav or soxi adsda.wav output to the display the result of sox -i delete temporary file
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create text file from textGrid using Praat or any other audio processing tool

I have a textGrid file generated by Prosodylab-Aligner which I can open in Praat. Is there any possibility to get out of it a text file that looks like that: Word in text | Pronounciation started at Hello 0:0:0.000 my …
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concatenating multiple wav files in praat

I have a folder consisting of wav files starting from 1 to 20, For instance 1.wav , 2.wav ....., 20.wav etc. I want to concatenate it serially but it is not concatenating serially . please suggest some help I am using this code: form Concatenate…
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Reading a TextGrid file into NLTK

I'm trying to read in a TextGrid file into NLTK, but I'm having some trouble. I understand that there is a parser for Textgrid ( as seen here: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nltk_contrib/nltk_contrib/textgrid.py). Unfortunately, I'm new to…
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How can praat get formant data from audio?

I'm making a program that extracts formants similar to praat. However, when I applied both lpc and mfcc, I don't think the accuracy is as good as praat. How can I extract the formant exactly like praat? I kept changing the lpc order to 80, 30, 70,…
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