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The result will look something like this: Then click on the 'sel' (for 'select') button. Click and drag (left-click on Windows) to highlight the first 'breath group' (region between silent pauses) in the waveform pane. The bottom pane (here in yellow) is where you'll put the transcription.Ħ. The middle pane is the 'spectrogram', about which more in a later lesson. The top pane is the 'waveform', which shows time left-to-right, and the local value of the sound signal (deviations from ambient air pressure) in the up-and-down dimension.

Now click on 'View & Edit', and a new window labelled '2. Sound ObamaMTP092014x' item, after which the (top of the) Praat Objects window should look like this: 'Command-click' (on Mac) or 'control-click' (on Windows) on the '1. Now the (top of the) 'Praat Objects' window should look like this: This causes a box to pop up that looks like this:Īnd click 'OK'. Click on the 'Annotate -' button:Īnd then select 'To TextGrid.' from the resulting pop-up menu: Set up to edit a 'TextGrid' associated with the audio file. Now the Praat Objects window should look like this:ĥ. to browse to wherever you put the ObamaMTP092014x.wav file, and open it. Click on the 'Open' menu in the 'Praat Objects' window, and use Open>Read from file. Open the ObamaMTP092014x.wav file in Praat. Get rid of the 'Praat Picture' window, as you won't be using it for this exercise.Ĥ.

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Two windows will appear, labelled 'Praat Objects' and 'Praat Picture'.

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Download ObamaMTP092014x.wav, the audio file to be transcribed, into an appropriate folder.ģ. On the other hand, you may well choose to build on what you've learned in this exercise when it comes time to do your Final Project.Ģ. The good news is that it's not a lot harder to do some very sophisticated things - but you won't get to that part of the Praat experience in this exercise, alas. I'm sorry to say that the design of Praat makes it much harder than it should be to do some very simple things. These are instructions for using the program Praat to create a simple transcription, aligned phrase-by-phrase or word-by-word with an audio file, as required by Homework 4 for Linguistics 001, Fall 2015 edition.

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