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.\"     Title: PRAAT
.\"    Author: Rafael Laboissiere
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.\"      Date: April 22, 2013
.\"    Manual: User Commands
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.SH "NAME"
praat \- doing phonetics by computer
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBpraat\fR\ 'u
\fBpraat\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the
\fBpraat\fR
command\&.
.PP
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page\&.
.PP
\fBpraat\fR
is a program for speech analysis and synthesis\&. Through its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction\&. Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity are also available\&. Other features are segmentation, labelling using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics\&. Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has provisions for communicating with other programs\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBpraat\fR
has an on\-line documentation; just launch praat and look at the Help menu entry\&.
.PP
For further information, see the Praat website (http://www\&.praat\&.org)\&. A very good Beginner\*(Aqs Guide is available at http://www\&.ling\&.lu\&.se/persons/Sidney/praate/frames\&.html\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere <<rafael@laboissiere\&.net>> for the Debian system (but may be used by others)\&. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU
General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation\&.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\-3\&.