Praat 6.0.46

PRAAT is a very flexible tool for speech analysis. It offers a wide range of standard and non-standard procedures including spectrographic analysis, articulatory synthesis, and neural networks. There is simply no better package for linguists to use in analyzing speech.

Features

• Speech analysis
• Speech synthesis
• Speech manipulation
• Listening experiments
• Labeling and segmentation
• Learning algorithms
• Statistics with principal compenent and discriminant analysis
• Produce quality graphics with integrated Mathematical and phonetics symbols
• Programmable with an easy scripting language
• Portable
• Configurable

For best results with phonetic characters in the TextGrid and Picture windows, you should also consider installing the Charis SIL and/or the Doulos SIL fonts.

Much of the "official" documentation is not designed to help linguists (who may not have a strong phonetics background) get the measurements and make the changes that they need for research. Thus, be sure to also look at the regularly-updated guidebook, Using Praat for Linguistic Research by Will Styler.