Praat is a great software package written and maintained by David Weenink and Paul Boersma of the University of Amsterdam. Free to use, with open source code, there is simply no superior package for linguists to use in analyzing speech.
To generate a short list of what this means, Praat allows you to achieve spectral, formant, pitch and intensity examination, as well as examine jitter, shimmer or voice breaks.
Speech analysis:
- spectral analysis (spectrograms)
- pitch study
- formant study
- intensity study
- shimmer, jitter, voice breaks
- cochleagram
- excitation pattern
Speech synthesis:
- from pitch, formant, and intensity
- Klatt acoustic synthesis
- articulatory synthesis
Labelling and segmentation:
- label intervals or time marks on many levels
- use phonetic alphabet
- use sound documents of almost 2 gigabytes (3 hours)
Speech customization:
- customize pitch or length contours
- filtering
Learning algorithms:
- feedforward neural networks
- stochastic and discrete Optimality Theory
Statistics:
- multidimensional scaling
- main component analysis
- discriminant analysis

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Download Praat - A powerful speech analysis tool designed from a scientist's standpoint but meant to be accessible and practical to users of all levels. It is a client server deployment of Praat, where Praat runs in the server with a web interface that allows users to upload sound files and process them with the scripts selected by the system administrator. 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. Download the latest version of Praat for Mac. Analyse and apply changes to audio files. Praat is a curious application that will let you record or import sounds.

Pros

• Convert audio files.
• Analyses sound in detail.

Cons

• Complex for non-linguists.

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