PRAAT(1)

💅 PRAAT(1) — the user commands page, but make it cute

okay so this is the manual page for praat, bestie. it lives in section 1 (user commands), and we're about to make it make sense. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

praat — doing phonetics by computer

like... that's literally the whole vibe. phonetics. on a computer. periodt 🦋

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

praat

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just ~launch her~ 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so first thing, this manual page documents the praat command briefly. like, a little sneak peek, not the whole saga. 🙈

also important lore: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program... doesn't have a manual page. so Debian said fine, i'll do it myself 💀

so what is praat? she's a program for speech analysis and synthesis. through her graphical interface, a whole bunch of speech analysis functionalities are available:

• spectrograms ✨
• cochleograms ✨
• pitch and formant extraction ✨

and she doesn't stop there — articulatory synthesis is also available, plus synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity. multi-talented icon behavior honestly 👑

other features include:

• segmentation
• labelling using the phonetic alphabet
• computation of statistics

and the part that makes her main character energy: Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language, and she has provisions for communicating with other programs. she's not like other girls, she's a whole ecosystem 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

praat has an on-line documentation — just launch praat and look at the Help menu entry. go look, she's got receipts 🧚

for further information, see the Praat website (http://www.praat.org).

and if you're a beginner (no shame, we all start somewhere 🍓), a very good Beginner's Guide is available at http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Sidney/praate/frames.html.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere <<rafael@laboissiere.net>> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). slay, Rafael 💜

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. so yes, you can remix, just keep the license energy intact 🫶

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. that's your receipt, keep it safe 🌸

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and that's the page, bestie 💖 it's Praat, dated April 22, 2013, and it's the PRAAT(1) entry — written in section 1, delivered with love, no cap. now go launch praat and poke the Help menu 🎀✨