Praat 5.3.59 – freeware

With this program, you can: Helps phoneticians analyze, synthesize, manipulate speech. and the below is its basic information:

Developer’s description: Praat 5.3.59 – Helps phoneticians analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech.

Application with which phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech.Praat is an application with which phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and create high-quality pictures for their doctoral theses and articles.Here are some key features of "Praat":Speech analysis:spectral analysis (spectrograms)pitch analysisformant analysisintensity analysisjitter, shimmer, voice breakscochleagramexcitation patternSpeech synthesis:from pitch, formant, and intensityarticulatory synthesisListening experiments:identification and discrimination testsLabelling and segmentation:label intervals and time points on multiple tiersuse phonetic alphabetuse sound files up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)Speech manipulation:change pitch and duration contoursfilteringLearning algorithms:feedforward neural networksdiscrete and stochastic Optimality TheoryStatistics:multidimensional scalingprincipal component analysisdiscriminant analysisGraphics:high quality for your articles and thesisproduce Encapsulated PostScript filesintegrated mathematical and phonetic symbolsProgrammability:easy programmable scripting languagecommunicate with other programs(the sendpraat source code)create hypertext manuals with sound I/OPortability:machine-independent binary filesread and write many sound and other file typesConfigurability:grow or shrink menussave prefs for fonts, views, sound devices…. click here for more…