I know this is probably a really simple question, but just help me out I am very desperate?
How to determine formants from a waveform if given time on the horizontal axis and amplitude on the vertical axis?
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How to determine formants from a waveform if given time on the horizontal axis and amplitude on the vertical axis?
You almost certainly do not want to compute the formants yourself (complex programming, way too long to describe here). If you can see a waveform in Praat, having selected a sound object and you clicked View & Edit, there should be 1 or two windows with waveform on the top, and another window at the bottow, which should display a spectrogram (if, clicking "Spectrum", you see a check on "Show Spectrogram"). In that same window, it will display pitch, amplitude and formants (look under "Formant"). If you want something besides a picture (i.e. numbers), if you select a part that you want analyzed, under Formant, you can select "formant listing" which will give you a series of formant calculations.