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Downloading Praat for Macintosh
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1. Downloading the Macintosh edition

Download Praat - A powerful speech analysis tool designed from a scientist's standpoint but meant to be accessible and practical to users of all levels. Download the file praatparselmouth-x.y.z-cpVV-cpVVm-AA.whl (for Windows) or praatparselmouth-x.y.z-cpVV-cpVVm-macosx106intel.whl (for Mac OS X) - where: x.y.z will be the version of Parselmouth you want to install.

To download the latest version of the MacOS edition of Praat,click once on the following disk image file:

64-bit edition (MacOS 10.9 or later, including BigSur, for Intel and Apple Silicon): praat6153_mac.dmg (8 September 2021; 23.9 MB)

After downloading, your web browser might open the .dmg file directly; you will then see the program Praat or Praat.app.If your browser did not open the .dmg file,then you should double-click the .dmg file in the Downloads window (or in the Downloads folder in your home directory);after double-clicking you may see the program Praat or Praat.app directly,or you may see a disk icon called Praat6153, which when you open it will show you the program Praat or Praat.app.To install Praat, just drag the program Praat or Praat.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere else).

2. How to start

To start up the Praat program, just double-click it.If you use Praat for the first time, choose Intro from the Help menu.

If you have trouble starting Praat for the first time:
To protect you against harmful software, MacOS enforces increasingly severe security measures,initially trusting only apps that you downloaded from the App Store.This is a good thing, but it does make it increasingly difficult to start up reliable applicationsthat you download from outside the App Store, such as Praat.Your Mac can throw a variety of messages at you:

  • If your Mac says 'Praat.app is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?',you can just click Open.
  • If your Mac says'Your security settings allow you to install only apps that you downloaded from the App Store',then you go to the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy, and set 'Allow apps downloaded from:'to 'App Store and identified developers' (you may have to 'click the lock' to make this change).After this, you should be fine, because the Praat app has been 'signed' by us,and we are indeed certified Mac developers.
  • If your Mac says 'Praat cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer;your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers',than your Mac may not have access to the Internet to check our credentials,but you should still be able to open Praat by clicking on the Praat icon with the right-hand mouse button(or with ctrl-click if your mouse has only one button) and choosing Open.
  • If your Mac says 'Praat cannot be opened because Apple cannot check if for malicious software;this software needs to be updated; contact the developer for more information',than this means that Apple has somehow not managed to 'notarize' Praat,but you should still be able to open Praat by going to Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy,seeing the message 'Praat was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer', and clicking 'Open anyway'(you may have to 'click the lock to make changes').

3. Phonetic symbols

If you want to see good-quality phonetic characters on your screen and in your clipboard,you have to install the Charis SIL and/or the Doulos SIL font.These fonts were created by the Summer Institute of Linguistics.To install them, first download the archives:

CharisSIL-5.000.zip
DoulosSIL-5.000.zip

Then unpack the .zip files, if your web browser has not already done that.This will give you folders called CharisSIL4 and DoulosSIL4.When you open these folders, you will see TrueType fonts such asCharisSILR.ttf, CharisSILB.ttf, CharisSILI.ttf, CharisSILBI.ttf, and DoulosSILR.ttf.Drag these five fonts to the /Library/Fonts folder in the top folder on your hard disk,if you have write access to that folder. Alternatively, you could put the fontsin the Library/Fonts folder in your home folder, although other users of your computercannot use them in that case.

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4. Problems with sound

On newer Macs, it is possible that your sounds play terribly, with cracks, repetitions and pauses.A likely cause is a macOS bug that you can solve: open Audio MIDI Setup (in Applications -> Utilities),go to MacBook internal loudspeakers (or so) -> Output, change the Format from 48000 Hz to 44100 Hz,and play a sound again in Praat, which should now sound correctly. Even though your Macwill change this setting back to 48000 Hz, sound output is likely to continue to sound correctly.

Recording a Sound could also go wrong. If your recorded sound is all zeroes,then you may have disallowed Praat to access the microphone; in that case,go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Microphone and put a check mark next to the Praat symbol.

If you are on BigSur and there is a click or crack at the end of a sound,go to Praat -> Preferences -> Sound playing preferences, and set Silence After to 0.5 seconds or so.

5. Tuning Praat to your Macintosh

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Sounds are recorded into a buffer whose size you can set with 'Sound recording preferences'.

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The best way to produce pictures is to use the clipboard or 'Save as PDF file...'in the Picture window.Both the clipboard and 'Save as PDF file...' produce PDF pictures.Most word-processing programs newer than 2006 accept such PDF pictures, at least on the Mac;if you use Microsoft Word 2008 or later, make sure to save your document as a .docx file,because if you save it as a .doc file, Word will convert the inserted PDF pictures into mediocre bitmaps.

6. Running Praat from the command line

To run Praat from a terminal window,write a Praat script and specify that script on the command line, optionally with arguments, e.g.:

/Applications/Praat.app/Contents/MacOS/Praat --run playsinewave.praat 377 0.9

For details see Calling from the command line in the Scripting manual.

7. Editions of Praat for older computers or operating system versions

  • On MacOS 10.7 or 10.8, try Praat 6.1.16 of 6 June 2020.
  • On MacOS 10.5 or 10.6 with an Intel processor, try Praat 6.0.16 of 5 April 2016.
  • If you want to copy-paste to Word 2004, or to open the audio in a movie, or to open Sound Designer II files, try Praat 5.3.14 of 28 April 2012.
  • On MacOS 10.5 with a PowerPC processor, try Praat 5.2.17 of 2 March 2011.
  • On MacOS 10.4, try Praat 5.2.17 of 2 March 2011.
  • On MacOS 10.2 or 10.3, try Praat 5.1.19 (dmg or sit) of 21 October 2009.
  • On MacOS 10.1, try Praat 4.1.13 of 22 October 2003.
  • On System 8.5 to 9.2, try praat4501_mac9.sit of 28 October 2006and install the fonts from silipa93.sit. Use File/Info in the Finder to give Praat one third of your computer's memory.
  • On System 7, try praat4223_mac7.sit of 17 November 2004and install the fonts from silipa93.sit. Use File/Info in the Finder to give Praat one third of your computer's memory.
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Praat is a free and open source speech analyzer software download filed under graphics software and made available by Paul Boersma and David Weenink for Windows.

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The review for Praat has not been completed yet, but it was tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.

Creates an interesting phonetician analysis of voices and speech

Praat is a piece of software that helps phoneticians analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech.

Praat enables you to create a source signal from scratch or from an existing speech signal, but also to create a filter or to extract it from an existing source. You can manipulate (change, adapt) both the source and the filter before doing the actual synthesis, which combines the two.

Features and highlights

  • Speech analysis: spectral analysis (spectrograms), pitch analysis, formant analysis, intensity analysis, jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
  • Cochleagram
  • Excitation pattern
  • Speech synthesis: from pitch, formant, and intensity, articulatory synthesis
  • Listening experiments: identification and discrimination tests
  • Labelling and segmentation: label intervals and time points on multiple tiers
  • Change pitch and duration contours
  • Filtering

Praat 6.1.53 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs

This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from graphics software without restrictions. Praat 6.1.53 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. As an open source project, you are free to view the source code and distribute this software application freely.

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