This is a set of brief tutorials for how to do some basic things with Praat, the great free phonetics software created and maintained by Paul Boersma and David Weenink. The overall goal is to help you get oriented to the program in general and some of the more commonly used functions. This tutorial is mostly geared toward people that are completely new to the program, but there may be tips that are of some use to experienced users as well.

For completeness, this guide was written while I was using Praat version 5.0.27 on a Windows PC (running Vista, specifically). However, the material covered in this guide is very unlikely to change much if at all between versions or platforms. Feel free to distribute this guide (just don’t sell it), but if you do, I’d like to hear about it. I’d also like to hear about anything you find especially helpful or unhelpful, or if there’s something else you’d like to see a tutorial for.

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