Welcome to Praat! Praat is a speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer. Praat can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your publications.

When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to say, “It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you.” However, the company mistakenly thought the Spanish word “embarazar” ...

Abstract: I welcome you to the fourth issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2021. This issue includes 23 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, ...

The course provides an introduction to English phonetics and intonation as well as insight into the description and comparison of varieties of English. We focus mainly on General British and General ...

This is a practical course in pronunciation. The students are trained to improve their pronunciation both on the segmental level (vowels and consonants) and on the prosodic level (quantity, stress, ...

Just want to learn to use phonR? Read the tutorial vignette. This is a package for the R language built for phoneticians and phonologists. Its main claim-to-fame is the plotVowels function, which ...