Praat examples

Other examples in which critical rates of ring-flipping have been detected by line-broadeiung have been reported (Dixon and Norman, 1964a de Boer and Praat, 1964). 

Although Praat provides a graphic interface for the specification of the synthesiser s control parameters, all examples in this section will be given in the form of Praat scripts. A Praat script is a list of commands for Praat. The system comes with a useful and straightforward script editor for writing and running scripts and it is well documented in the user manual that is available via the program s Help menu. 

In order to s)mthesise a sound using the Praat physical model one needs to indicate (a) the speaker and (b) a list of actions. In Praat parlance, the speaker is referred to as the Speaker object and the list of actions is referred to as the Artwork object. In practice, a script contains instructions for an Artwork object and a call for a Speaker object that should be defined beforehand in a separate file. For the sake of simplicity, the following examples will employ PraaPs default adult female speaker model and we will refrain from changing its physical characteristics. 

The complete script for this first example is given below and it will serve as the starting point for the examples that follow. This and other scripts (examplel.praat, examplel.praat, and so on) are available in the folder robovox, provided with the Praat system on the accompanying CD-ROM. 

The folder <praat scripts> contains examples of the scripts, including those mentioned in the book. You should copy this folder onto your hard disk manually as it is not part of the installable material. 

The folder <praat scripts> contains examples of the scripts, including those mentioned in the book. 

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