Praatcon 5.4.08

Features of the Praatcon software:

Speech analysis:

- spectral analysis (spectrograms)
- pitch analysis
- formant analysis
- intensity analysis
- jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
- cochleagram
- excitation pattern

Speech synthesis:

- formant, from pitch, and intensity
- articulatory synthesis
- Klatt acoustic synthesis

Listening experiments:

- identification and discrimination tests

Labeling and segmentation:

- label breaks and time points on more tiers
- use phonetic alphabet
- sound files with almost 2 gigabytes

Speech manipulation:

- change pitch and the duration outline
- filtering

Learning algorithms:

- feedforward neural networks
- stochastic and discrete Optimality Theory

Statistics:

- multidimensional scaling
- principal component analysis
- discriminant analysis

Graphics:

- high quality for your thesis and articles
- produce Encapsulated PostScript files
- bundled mathematical and phonetic symbols

Programmability:

- very easy programmable scripting language
- communicate with other software
- create hypertext with sound I/O

Portability:

- independent binary files
- read and write a large range of sound and other file types

Configurability:

- increase or decrease menus