SENDPRAAT(1)

✨ SENDPRAAT(1) ✨

okay so bestie, we're doing phonetics today 💅 this is the manual for sendpraat, a User Commands situation, and honestly? it's giving "tiny program, huge power". let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sendpraat — doing phonetics by computer 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sendpraat [timeOut] program {message ...}

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This manual page documents the sendpraat command. It was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. (not the original being mysterious and elusive 😭 we had to write it ourselves, periodt)

sendpraat is a program for sendings messages to a running program that uses the Praat shell, like praat(1). yes, "sendings". the manpage said it like that and I'm not about to gaslight you 💀

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👑 ARGUMENTS 👑

• timeOut — the number of seconds that sendpraat will wait for an answer before writing an error message. A timeOut of 0 means that the message will be sent asynchronously, i.e., that sendpraat will return immediately without issuing any error message. so like, zero patience, zero consequences ✨
• program — the name of a running program that uses the Praat shell.
• message ... — a sequence of Praat shell lines (commands and directives). Each line is a separate argument. Lines that contain spaces should be put inside double quotes. one arg per line bestie, don't try to be sneaky 🎀

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

sendpraat 0 praat Quit

Causes the program praat to quit (gracefully). This works because “Quit” is a fixed command in Praat’s Control menu. Sendpraat will return immediately. bye girl 👋 no waiting, no drama, 0 timeout means we're already gone

sendpraat 1000 praat "Play reverse"

Causes the program praat, which can play sounds, to play the selected Sound objects backwards. This works because “Play reverse” is an action command that becomes available in Praat’s dynamic menu when Sounds are selected. Sendpraat will allow “praat” at most 1000 seconds to perform this. a thousand seconds!! that's like 16 minutes of pure backwards-sound main character energy 🎧

sendpraat praat "execute ~/MyResearch/MyProject/MyScript.praat"

Causes the program “praat” to execute a script. Sendpraat will allow praat at most 10 seconds (the default time out). okay so no timeOut arg = the default kicks in, iykyk 💜

sendpraat als "for i from 1 to 5" "Draw circle... 0.5 0.5 0.1*i" "endfor"

Causes the program als to draw five concentric circles into its Picture window. five circles, one loop, absolute slay 🌀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

praat has an on-line documentation; just launch praat and look at the Help menu entry. fr fr, it's right there.

For further information, see the Praat website (http://www.praat.org). A good Beginner’s Guide, written by Sidney Wood, is available at https://person2.sol.lu.se/SidneyWood/praate/frames.html — go read it, it's iconic 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissière <rafael@laboissiere.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). It was based on the information provided by the help message of the sendpraat program itself. 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.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

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⭐ ngl the "Version 3 any later version" is missing an "or" in the original and I am not about to edit the license text, so it stays exactly as it is. no cap.

okay that's the whole vibe check, you now know sendpraat better than most people who use it 💖 this page lives in the User Commands section of the manual, it's from April 22, 2013, and it's SENDPRAAT(1) — that's the version tag and date, all wrapped up in one cute little footer bow 🎀 bye bestie, go send some messages 💅🦋