winget install --id UniversityOfAmsterdam.praatAbout praat
Praat is a free, open-source program for speech analysis in phonetics. It allows users to perform spectral, pitch, formant, and intensity analysis, as well as study jitter, shimmer, and voice breaks.
What's new in 6.5.56
- MacOS Tahoe: support making menu choices or turning windows to full screen if a script is paused (by the Demo window or the Pause window), as on earlier MacOS versions and on Windows and Linux. - Windows: support horizontal scrolling in three ways (two-finger swiping on the touchpad; left and right tilting of the mouse’s scroll wheel; turning the mouse’s scroll wheel while keeping the Shift key pressed). - Windows: better dotted or dashed thick lines. - Sound: To PowerCepstrogram... now averages the power over channels instead of taking only channel 1. - Opening TIFF files with Read from file..., as well as Insert picture from file...: rid a bug that would show monochrome TIFF files in four vertical stripes. - Mac and Linux: made Insert picture from file... work for PDF files again (bug since 6.4.28). - Backslash trigraph for apico-postalveolars: ṣ (s.v), following Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996), who wanted to distinguish them from the more extreme retroflexes, i.e. apico-palatals such as ʂ (\s.). - Linux: prevented a crash when a “barren” edition tried to run runAllTests_batch.praat. - Scripting: runSubprocess and runSystem now support asynchronous, with which you can spawn a subprocess without waiting for it to finish. - Scripting: randomImax. - Scripting: in pause forms, allow vector expressions as defaults in vector fields. - Scripting: syntax check against duplicate procedure names. - Scripting: no longer any limits on the number of labels and procedures.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 6.5.56 | Unknown | - MacOS Tahoe: support making menu choices or turning windows to full screen if a script is paused (by the Demo window or the Pause window), as on earlier MacOS versions and on Windows and Linux. - Windows: support horiz... |
| 6.5.51 | Unknown | - Windows: switch back to the faster version (version 6.4.50 was deliberately slower, so as to support Windows 7 and 8.1 for the last time). |
| 6.4.50 | Unknown | • A bit of speech recognition via Whisper.cpp (adapted to Praat by Anastasia Shchupak), such as Transcribe interval in the TextGrid window. This works after you install one or more Whisper-cpp models, such as ggml-base.b... |
| 6.4.49 | Unknown | - Open without error messages or warnings Kay files that have one sample too few or too many. - Linux: the standard Linux edition now runs equally well on Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Centos. - EditDistanceTable: made read... |
| 6.4.48 | Unknown | - Linux audio: recognize JACK devices (next to the already recongized ALSA devices). - Linux fonts: support for the Charis 7 font, as on macOS and Windows. - OTGrammar: non-negative maximum entropy learning. - Debug opti... |
| 6.4.47 | Unknown | - Sound: To LPC...: channel averaging by default. - runSystem and runSubprocess should not divert a terminal window’s standard output. - Repaired a bug from November 2014 by which writing a BarkSpectrogram to a binary fi... |
| 6.4.46 | Unknown | - ScriptEditor: made Run selection work again on Windows and Linux (bug since 6.4.44). - Made pause windows (and perhaps Demo window) compatible with macOS 26 (Tahoe). |
| 6.4.45 | Unknown | - Made Picture window 60×60 inches (instead of 12×12). - Windows: repaired a crashing bug in runSystem introduced in 6.4.44. - Made progress bar writing compatible with macOS 26 (Tahoe). - Repaired an old bug that could... |
| 6.4.44 | Unknown | - Made runSubprocess compatible with the Microsoft runtime (instead of MinGW). - Made Info window writing compatible with macOS 26 (Tahoe). - Made demoShow compatible with macOS 26. - Made ScriptEditor menus reachable on... |
| 6.4.43 | Unknown | - Calling Praat from the command line: the new switch --send-or-form sends a script to a different already running GUI instance of Praat, like --send does, but takes no arguments (except for the name of the script file)... |
| 6.4.42 | Unknown | - Recognize more OGG sound files. - Recognize the pre-2025 sendpraat message on Windows again (compatibility with Elan 7.0). |
| 6.4.41 | Unknown | - Faster computation of some formants (because of multithreading). - Removed a bug that caused Praat to crash on Sound: To Formant (robust).... |
| 6.4.40 | Unknown | - Faster computation of spectrograms and formants (because of multithreading). - Full awareness of processors with up to 400 physical threads (i.e. 200 or 400 cores). |
| 6.4.39 | Unknown | - Calibrated cepstral peak prominence (PowerCepstrogram: Get CPPS...). - Windows: restored “@”, “~” and “\” on Latin-American Spanish keyboards. |
| 6.4.38 | Unknown | - Macintosh and Windows: put back Charis SIL 6.200 for downloading with older Praat versions. - PairDistribution: Set weight.... - OTGrammarEditor: removed a bug by which the window wouldn’t update automatically after le... |
| 6.4.37 | Unknown | - Macintosh and Windows: support for the Charis 7 font. |
| 6.4.36 | Unknown | Sound window: restore loudspeaker icon (for multi-channel sounds; bug since 6.4.31). - Scripting: function moveAndOrRenameFile (). - FLAC 1.5.0. - Scripting on Windows: more Command-key combinations with demoKey$ in Demo... |
| 6.4.35 | Unknown | Pitch analysis: guard against zero pitch floor if logarithmic. • Scripting: fixed$ () for vectors and matrices. • Linux: removed hard-coded background colour. |
| 6.4.34 | Unknown | - Linux: made demoShow () work again on GTK 3. - Scripting: clock (). |
| 6.4.33 | Unknown | - H1-minus-H2 in the voice report. - Repaired an old bug that made spectrogram computation in the Sound window crash under some uncommon combinations of settings. |