![]() When you look at this recording of "pa", there are three parts that are clearly different. Now we really can see the "pa" sound clearly. This will focus the screen on the sound you've selected so that you can see it clearly. After you have selected the sound so it's highlighted in pink, click the " sel" button at the bottom of the screen. I recommend you try to find the "best" pa you can in your recording you can select different sounds and listen to them, andįinally, I like to zoom in to see this sound clearly. ![]() Microphone, so the "p" wasn't very audible. In my recording, some of the sounds actually sounded more like "ha" than "pa" this happened because my room was a bit noisy when I recorded, and I didn't speak very close to the Finally, clicking the section that in my screenshot says "0.698558" will play just the selected sound, which happens to be You zoom in further then the visible part will be less than the total duration. Part" will play the whole part of the sound that's visible on the screen right now the whole sound is visible on the screen so this "visible" part will play the same thing as "total duration", but if (Clicking "total duration" will play the whole recorded sound. If you want to listen to just this sound, you can click the relevant section in the bar below. To do this, click at the beginning of one sound, and hold your button and drag your cursor to the end of the sound. To "zoom in" and select just one sound to listen to. But we only really need to focus on one "pa". You can listen to this whole sound by clicking the area that says "Visible part" or the area that says "Total duration". There's a big soundwave going up or down, that's when your voice was loud. When there's a straight horizontal in the middle, that's when your voice was silent. You will see a window like this:įor now, we only need to worry about the top half of the image this is showing the sound wave. When this sound is selected/highlighted, click "View and edit". Once you have done this, you will see the new sound available and highlighted in the "Praat Objects" window: Listen to your sound "untitled"), and then click " Save to list & Close". You can give the sound a name if you want (the default is just When you are ready, click " Record", and speak into Praat. So usually I say "pa pa pa pa" or something like that. I usually record myself saying it several times-in case one recording is "bad" (e.g., if there's some background noise or my voiceĬracks), then I can have some extras to use. Your task now is to record yourself saying "pa". If you don't see any green bar, or if the greenīar doesn't go up and down when you talk, that probably means your microphone is not working. That is how you know the microphone is working. If you click "Record" and make some noise, you should see a green bar moving up and down. In the Praat Objects window, click "New" (at the menu at the top of the window), and then click "Record Mono Sound". You will also need to be using a computer with a microphone most modern laptops have aīuilt-in microphone, or if you have an external microphone you can plug that in. Make sure you're in a relatively quiet environment. Now it's time to record yourself speaking. All our work will use the window that says "Praat Objects". I usually close the window that says "Praat Picture" we are not going to need it. Once you have done that, double-click the Praat icon to open the programme. Just download the file and then "unzip" it, place the "Praat.exe" file (it looks like a pink mouth and ear) on your Desktop. It's very easy to set up, you don't need to do any special "installation" procedure Praat is available for both Windows and Mac make sure you choose the appropriate version to download. ![]() Towards the end of this page I have also uploaded a video demo of this activity. This is a free software for doing linguistic analysis of speech (" praat" is the Dutch word for "speech", and this software was To do this, you will need to download a computer programme called To see what voice onset time is, we're going to record and analyze our own speech. This experiment is related to something called voice onset time. What is Voice Onset Time? What is Voice Onset Time? (2 hours)
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