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  2. Praat is a free software package used for speech analysis in phonetics. It is designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It is a flexible tool that offers a broad range of standard and non-standard procedures such as spectrographic analysis, speech synthesis, articulatory.
  3. Downloading Praat. Praat is available for download from the Praat website (instructions here). Update frequently in order to get the latest functions and corrections. Paul Boersma and David Weeninck produce separate editions of Praat for various operating systems, e.g. MS Windows, MacOS, Solaris, Linux etc. All editions function and look.
  4. 8/10 - Download Praat Free. Analyze the sound that you use when you speak. If you are looking for a program to study phonetics, Praat is the best free solution that you can find. Praat is a program specially designed for phonetics teachers and students. This application allows the user to record.
Downloading Praat for Macintosh

1. Downloading the Macintosh edition

To download the latest version of the MacOS edition of Praat,click once on the following disk image file:

64-bit edition (MacOS 10.9 or later, including BigSur, for Intel and Apple Silicon): praat6153_mac.dmg (8 September 2021; 23.9 MB)

After downloading, your web browser might open the .dmg file directly; you will then see the program Praat or Praat.app.If your browser did not open the .dmg file,then you should double-click the .dmg file in the Downloads window (or in the Downloads folder in your home directory);after double-clicking you may see the program Praat or Praat.app directly,or you may see a disk icon called Praat6153, which when you open it will show you the program Praat or Praat.app.To install Praat, just drag the program Praat or Praat.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere else).

2. How to start

To start up the Praat program, just double-click it.If you use Praat for the first time, choose Intro from the Help menu.

If you have trouble starting Praat for the first time:
To protect you against harmful software, MacOS enforces increasingly severe security measures,initially trusting only apps that you downloaded from the App Store.This is a good thing, but it does make it increasingly difficult to start up reliable applicationsthat you download from outside the App Store, such as Praat.Your Mac can throw a variety of messages at you:

  • If your Mac says 'Praat.app is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?',you can just click Open.
  • If your Mac says'Your security settings allow you to install only apps that you downloaded from the App Store',then you go to the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy, and set 'Allow apps downloaded from:'to 'App Store and identified developers' (you may have to 'click the lock' to make this change).After this, you should be fine, because the Praat app has been 'signed' by us,and we are indeed certified Mac developers.
  • If your Mac says 'Praat cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer;your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers',than your Mac may not have access to the Internet to check our credentials,but you should still be able to open Praat by clicking on the Praat icon with the right-hand mouse button(or with ctrl-click if your mouse has only one button) and choosing Open.
  • If your Mac says 'Praat cannot be opened because Apple cannot check if for malicious software;this software needs to be updated; contact the developer for more information',than this means that Apple has somehow not managed to 'notarize' Praat,but you should still be able to open Praat by going to Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy,seeing the message 'Praat was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer', and clicking 'Open anyway'(you may have to 'click the lock to make changes').

3. Phonetic symbols

If you want to see good-quality phonetic characters on your screen and in your clipboard,you have to install the Charis SIL and/or the Doulos SIL font.These fonts were created by the Summer Institute of Linguistics.To install them, first download the archives:

CharisSIL-5.000.zip
DoulosSIL-5.000.zip

Then unpack the .zip files, if your web browser has not already done that.This will give you folders called CharisSIL4 and DoulosSIL4.When you open these folders, you will see TrueType fonts such asCharisSILR.ttf, CharisSILB.ttf, CharisSILI.ttf, CharisSILBI.ttf, and DoulosSILR.ttf.Drag these five fonts to the /Library/Fonts folder in the top folder on your hard disk,if you have write access to that folder. Alternatively, you could put the fontsin the Library/Fonts folder in your home folder, although other users of your computercannot use them in that case.

4. Problems with sound

On newer Macs, it is possible that your sounds play terribly, with cracks, repetitions and pauses.A likely cause is a macOS bug that you can solve: open Audio MIDI Setup (in Applications -> Utilities),go to MacBook internal loudspeakers (or so) -> Output, change the Format from 48000 Hz to 44100 Hz,and play a sound again in Praat, which should now sound correctly. Even though your Macwill change this setting back to 48000 Hz, sound output is likely to continue to sound correctly.

Recording a Sound could also go wrong. If your recorded sound is all zeroes,then you may have disallowed Praat to access the microphone; in that case,go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Microphone and put a check mark next to the Praat symbol.

If you are on BigSur and there is a click or crack at the end of a sound,go to Praat -> Preferences -> Sound playing preferences, and set Silence After to 0.5 seconds or so.

5. Tuning Praat to your Macintosh

Sounds are recorded into a buffer whose size you can set with 'Sound recording preferences'.

The best way to produce pictures is to use the clipboard or 'Save as PDF file...'in the Picture window.Both the clipboard and 'Save as PDF file...' produce PDF pictures.Most word-processing programs newer than 2006 accept such PDF pictures, at least on the Mac;if you use Microsoft Word 2008 or later, make sure to save your document as a .docx file,because if you save it as a .doc file, Word will convert the inserted PDF pictures into mediocre bitmaps.

6. Running Praat from the command line

To run Praat from a terminal window,write a Praat script and specify that script on the command line, optionally with arguments, e.g.:

/Applications/Praat.app/Contents/MacOS/Praat --run playsinewave.praat 377 0.9

For details see Calling from the command line in the Scripting manual.

7. Editions of Praat for older computers or operating system versions

  • On MacOS 10.7 or 10.8, try Praat 6.1.16 of 6 June 2020.
  • On MacOS 10.5 or 10.6 with an Intel processor, try Praat 6.0.16 of 5 April 2016.
  • If you want to copy-paste to Word 2004, or to open the audio in a movie, or to open Sound Designer II files, try Praat 5.3.14 of 28 April 2012.
  • On MacOS 10.5 with a PowerPC processor, try Praat 5.2.17 of 2 March 2011.
  • On MacOS 10.4, try Praat 5.2.17 of 2 March 2011.
  • On MacOS 10.2 or 10.3, try Praat 5.1.19 (dmg or sit) of 21 October 2009.
  • On MacOS 10.1, try Praat 4.1.13 of 22 October 2003.
  • On System 8.5 to 9.2, try praat4501_mac9.sit of 28 October 2006and install the fonts from silipa93.sit. Use File/Info in the Finder to give Praat one third of your computer's memory.
  • On System 7, try praat4223_mac7.sit of 17 November 2004and install the fonts from silipa93.sit. Use File/Info in the Finder to give Praat one third of your computer's memory.

Download Praat For Mac Pro

Download Praat For MacBack to the Praat home page.

This installation steps assumes that you have Praat installed on your computer.

Download Praat For Mac Software

  1. Download the plugin here

  2. Extract the zip and put the folder 'plugin_VocalToolkit' in your Praat preferences directory.
    You can execute this command in a Praat script window to know where your preferences folder is:
    3. On some Mac OSX versions the Library folder is hidden. If you can't find it, go to Finder and select the Go menu, hold down Option key and Library will display. Usually the preferences folder is here:
    • Mac: '/Users/(UserName)/Library/Preferences/Praat Prefs/'
    • Windows XP: 'C:Documents and Settings(UserName)Praat'
    • Windows Vista and later: 'C:Users(UserName)Praat'
    • Linux: '/UserName/.praat-dir/'

  3. Two drop-down menus, Copy and Process, will be added when opening Praat. They will appear if one or more Sounds are selected in the list of objects.

Download Praat For Mac Version

* The current version of the plugin uses pause windows instead of forms to create the dialog boxes. If you prefer to use the older version, you can download it here: