tebop opened this issue on Apr 20, 2007 · 14 posts
ockham posted Sat, 21 April 2007 at 10:35 AM
PRAAT: very interesting. I used to work in phonetics research, and remember
trying to use the very first edition of PRAAT in 1987 or so. It came on dozens
of floppies and cost $1500 iirc....... I never could make it work for our purposes
(mainly jitter and shimmer analysis and intonation research) because it was
just a set of libraries and source code, with no obvious way to connect to
the data from a wave. Given months of total immersion, I probably could have
done something with it, but we didn't have that luxury ... anyway I had already
rigged up some programs to do the analysis, perhaps more crudely than
PRAAT would have done.
This latest version appears to be much easier to use, and is certainly cheaper!