Download.it search icon
Advertisement

Analyze spectrograms and learn a lot about linguistics with this free and unique Windows program

Analyze spectrograms and learn a lot about linguistics with this free and unique Windows program

Vote: (18 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Fon

Version: 6.2.23

Works under: Windows

Also available for Mac

Vote:

Program license

(18 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Fon

6.2.23

Works under:

Also available for

Windows

Mac

Pros

  • Gives you a detailed spectrogram that you can analyze.
  • Has all the tools expert linguists need to analyze audio.
  • Comes with many scripts that can give you more tools and functions.

Cons

  • This tool is complex and not meant for newcomers.

Praat is a program for linguists to analyze and study spectrograms. This is a complex tool that gives you a spectrogram based on any audio fed into the computer. This can come from saved files or a connected microphone. While too complex for most users, this might be helpful for linguists.

Main Features

Praat is a tool that generates a spectrogram based on any audio uploaded to it. The graph itself allows experts to judge intensity, intonation, volume and many other details. This program isn't meant for newcomers, so it expects you to already know how to judge these elements.

You can also isolate certain sections to get a better analysis. This allows you to focus on a smaller section rather than the whole file, which can be useful in many cases.

Scripts

Praat includes many scripts to give you more features. For example, there are scripts for filtering frequencies, changing frequencies, further isolating sound bites and more. Many scripts are already loaded into the program. You can also load other scripts with ease.

Since many scripts are generic, you might be able to load scripts from other spectrogram programs into Praat. It's worth trying to see if you can get other tools for this program.

Supported Formats

You'll find that Praat understands a variety of audio formats. You can upload nearly any audio file on your computer. There are very few file types that Praat cannot work with. You can also speak directly into the computer with a microphone and it will capture the audio.

Pros

  • Gives you a detailed spectrogram that you can analyze.
  • Has all the tools expert linguists need to analyze audio.
  • Comes with many scripts that can give you more tools and functions.

Cons

  • This tool is complex and not meant for newcomers.