Questions tagged [praat]
Praat (the Dutch word for "talk" or "speak") is a free scientific computer software package for the analysis of speech in phonetics
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Is there an instructive image where I can see a spectrum and a spectrogram, side-by-side?
I’m sometimes confused about representations of speech sounds.
Even if I know a spectrum is 2D and a spectrogram is 3D, and the axes are different, I often struggle to figure our what I’m looking at....
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How does Praat map quantized values to frequency statistics?
I'm working with 16-bit WAV files. As far as I understand, amplitude is measured at a sampling rate of 44100 samples/second (i.e. Hertz), with each sample being represented as binary data through ...
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Power in Center of Gravity
I am writing a Praat script to measure center of gravity in fricatives. I don't understand what the difference is in the power values. The manual says "Common values are 2, 1, or 2/3", but I don't ...
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Invisible boundaries on PRAAT?
I used P2FA to insert all of these boundaries. For some reason, there is an invisible boundary. You can see this is part of the selection. I would like to hand-correct the interval labelled B (on tier ...
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Formant measurements errors in Praat
I am trying to measure formant trajectories in /lV/ sequences.
I started by extracting values at 11 temporal points, but I am getting a lot of incorrect values, as if Praat is struggling to recognize ...
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How to find a "burst quality" in a spectrogram?
What is the "burst quality" in a spectrogram? So for the example I provided from praat what would be the burst quality for the affricate shown below? Is it similar to a plosive?
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How can I measure fricative voicing?
everyone! This questions regards Praat. I'm trying to find a way to measure the voicing property of word-final fricatives in L2 English. Learners (and often native speakers) often produce forms such ...
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Praat Pitch Parameters: pitch floor and minimum
Praat users: I am using a 2-pass method to determine my pitch floor and ceiling. I am first gathering the necessary values using the 'To Pitch...' command. I am then using my calculated floor/ceiling ...
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Praat Script not Outputting to Directory
I'm trying to run a Praat script provided by: http://phonetics.linguistics.ucla.edu/facilities/acoustic/Segmenter.txt However, when I run the script with the correct directories, setting my label$ = 他,...
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Choosing/Adjusting settings away from the standards in a Praat script
I am analyzing dyadic conversations for speech characteristics through pre-written script. I spoke with an expert in speech analysis prior to data collection as an introduction to praat. He suggested ...
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Automatically counting and labelling the number of annotations in a Praat textgrid
I am interested in studying animal vocalisations, and have labelled each vocalisation type in a sequence, using a Praat textgrid. I have already found a script to enable me toExtract the durations of ...
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Small differences between manual and automatic formants measurements
After the implementing of the Praat script where formants was measured automatically, I found an small differences between manual and automatically measured formants. Who knows, why this ...
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praat script errors
I have a praat script:
#!/usr/bin/praat --run
form Add VOT
sentence Filename_of_textgrid /mount/arbeitsdaten31/studenten1/vernonhn/Thesis/MASTER_code/autovot-master/experiments/data/ALC/train/...
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How to convert CHAT to TextGrid in a batch?
Siarad corpus is a corpus of spoken Welsh (~40 hours, all transcribed, glossed and translated!). I want to analyze some conversations using Praat. Praat uses the TextGrid format, but the Siarad corpus ...
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Praat will not recognize regular expressions
I'm having an issue with a Praat script. I would like to define the labels I want to define the label I want to look for with a regular expression like this:
if label$ = "[AEIOU].."
However, Praat ...
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Praat: CPP from modified .Manipulation file
I am working with dysphonic speech and Praat's automated pulse detection algorithm is inadequate, so I manually correct the placement of pulses using .Manipulation files.
My ultimate goal is to ...
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Matching Textgrid transcript to sound in Praat
I'm measuring the vowels in a whole boatload of recordings of the same item (e.g. 100 recordings of different people saying "my dog") in Praat. I am not very experienced in Praat, but figured out how ...
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Identifying place of articulation of stops in Praat
I've played around in Praat a bit trying to identify unknown syllables in Mandarin by just looking at the spectrograms. Since there is a very limited number of syllables in Mandarin (slightly over 400 ...
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Praat for detecting not single vowels but vocals in a word
So. I've started using this powerfull (though inconvenient) piece of software Praat. And when i try to measure my own vocals formants of single vowels and these of native speakers (spanish) we all hit ...
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How to paint spectrogram with textgrid?
For some reason I cannot figure out how to draw a spectrogram together with a TextGrid. I can draw a waveform with a TextGrid, a pitch track with a TextGrid, just not the spectrogram. I can draw a ...
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How can I extract the speech from one speaker in an audio file?
Assisting with a project and they need me to extract the speech from one speaker in an interview and make it its own audio file.
The audio I have are 1-1.5 hr interview recordings, and it is generally ...
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Can anyone help me to resolve an issue relating to F0 and audio data?
I made a textgrid of the sentence "I quite like cheese a lot." and created three tiers and marked the sentence, word (cheese) and the nucleus of cheese to examine the f0. Then I used a ...
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How can I extract every instance of a single word that occurs in multiple .wav files?
I have the .wav and corresponding .TextGrid files in one directory. What's a quick way to extract/slice sound file intervals labeled with the Chinese character in question?
I'd then want to store ...
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Praat: How does pitch floor affect number of frames?
With reference to the documentation for the ToPitch function, http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Sound__To_Pitch___.html
pitch floor will determine the length of the analysis window, and always ...
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Praat: Interpretation of row number when inspecting sound file
When I inspect a sound file in Praat, I see the following picture:
I understand that Praat creates a ny x nx matrix using these values, and that 'nx' refers to the number of frames in the WAV file. ...
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How can I remove the red dashed lines of the cursor in Praat?
I am writing a conference paper where I want to include the PRAAT analyses of some spoken sentences (I will use screenshots), but I cannot get rid of the red cursor lines. Is there a way to deactivate ...
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Drawing labels on a Praat Sound plot
What commands do I need in a Praat script to draw labels for the minimum and maximum of a Sound object?
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save all file in window objects praat
I have some files. wav in the object window, how can I save them automatically?
I found this script but I get an error:
directoryName$ = chooseDirectory$: "Choose a directory to save all the new ...
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adding an ouput line to an existing praat script
I am using an existing praat script for speech rate (Nivja de Jong and Ton Wempe, 2008) that outputs speech rate along with other variables in the Praat info window. It saves the files it uses compute ...
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