Praat

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Praat
Developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink, from the Institute of Phonetic Sciences - University of Amsterdam.
Initial release  ?
Stable release 4634 [+/−]
Written in C
OS Windows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available in English
Genre Science software
License GNU
Website http://www.praat.org/

Praat (also the Dutch word for "talk") is a free scientific computer software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It has been designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various Unix versions, Mac and Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). The program also supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

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