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Praat Tutorials (in Spanish)
I've prepared a series of tutorials on Praat (in Spanish) which I use in workshops I teach. They're published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, so you can freely use them for all non-commercial purposes. You can also adapt them to your own particular uses, so if you want to translate them into another language, for example, or use the screen shots for your own tutorial, go right ahead.
Workshop 1: TextGrids
Topics
- Basic Praat use
- Common shortcuts
- Creating and using TextGrids
- Creating, modifying and using tiers and intervals
- Phonetic transcription with Praat and Lenz
Files
- Download the tutorial and TextGrid for Workshop 1 in PDF format (3.3 MB).
- Download the tutorial and TextGrid for Workshop 1 in PowerPoint 2007 format (9.3 MB).
- Download the WAV file used in the tutorial (2.3 MB).
- Download Lenz (a program that allows you to type IPA symbols directly into Praat and other programs).
- Download the latest version of Praat. If you don't know your computer's architecture, choose the 32-bit version.
- Download and install the following fonts: Charis SIL, Charis SIL Compact, Doulos SIL and Doulos SIL Compact (uncompress the ZIP files and copy their contents to C:\Windows\Fonts\, or double click on each of the files inside the ZIPs).
Workshop 2: Introduction to Praat scripts
Topics
- Basic concepts in Praat scripting
- Use of basic scripts when working with TextGrids
- Use of other tools (Notepad++ with Praat syntax highlighting file)
- Opening and running scripts
- How to use specific scripts, such as MaSCoT
Files
- Download the tutorial and TextGrid for workshop 2 in PDF format (1.1 MB).
- Download the tutorial and TextGrid for workshop 2 in PowerPoint 2007 format (3.0 MB).
- Download the WAV file used in the tutorial (2.3 MB).
- Download the scripts used in the tutorial (10 kB)
Download Lenz (a program that allows you to type IPA symbols directly into Praat and other programs).
Download the Praat syntax highlighting file (installation instructions can be found here).
Workshop 3: Measuring phonetic phenomena I
Topics
- Measuring pitch (F0)
- Measuring vowel formants (F1 and F2)
- Measuring intensity
- Measuring voice quality (jitter, shimmer, HNR)
- Measuring the center of gravity of fricatives
Files
- Download the tutorial for workshop 3 in PDF format (4.2 MB)
- Download the tutorial for workshop 3 in PPTX format (4.28 MB)
- Download the audio file for workshop 3 in FLAC format (16.3 MB)
- Download the text grid for workshop 3 (14 kb).