{"id":1046,"date":"2020-03-22T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/?page_id=1046"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:32:17","slug":"1-2-introduction-of-praat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/1-2-introduction-of-praat\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2. Introduction of Praat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Praat<\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0is a freeware program for the analysis and reconstruction of acoustic speech signals. You can analyze, synthesize,\u00a0 manipulate speech and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis with it. It can be downloaded from the following website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fon.hum.uva.nl\/Praat\/<\/a><\/u>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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1.2.1. What is Praat?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Praat is an open-software tool for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It's free and available for most platforms.<\/p>\n

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Praat was designed to cater for different needs with easy interface, many default options to learn by trying, searchable manual, and various possibilities of analysis, manipulation and labeling (Goldman, 2004: 1).<\/p>\n

\nThere are many Praat tutorials available for helping with the Praat application. However, the majority of the existing Praat manuals were designed for software documentation and assumes a strong phonetics or programming background of readers. The current manual is compiled from a variety of elaborate manuals with a special focus on those most-frequently used functions and techniques for acoustic analysis. The target readers of this are those beginners who are not equipped with a strong phonetics or programming background but want to do some phonetic analysis of speech sounds. The clear visual presentation of operational procedures and introduction to acoustic knowledge are provided to facilitate the use of Praat in linguistic research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1.2.2. What we can do with Praat? <\/b>(Adapted from Styler, 2012: 6<\/u>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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With Praat, you can \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n