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Praat
Developer(s)	Paul Boersma and David Weenink
Initial release	1991
Stable release	6.4.07 / 17 March 2024; 38 days ago
Repository	github.com/praat/praat ;
Written in	C, C++, Objective-C
Operating system	Windows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available in	English
Type	Free software
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	www.praat.org

Praat (/prɑːt/; Dutch: [praːt] ^ⓘ, "talk") is a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics.^[4] It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various versions of Unix, Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). The program supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis. Its logo depicts a mouth over an ear.^[5]

Version history edit

Praat icon until 2020

Version	Date	Main
3.1	5 December 1995
4.0	15 October 2001
4.1	5 June 2003	Mac OS X edition, More than 99 percent of the source code distributed under the General Public Licence.
5.0	10 December 2007
5.1	31 January 2009
5.2	29 October 2010
5.3	15 October 2011
5.4	4 October 2014
6.0	28 October 2015
6.1	13 July 2019
6.2	15 November 2021

^ Boersma, Paul; van Heuven, Vincent (2001). "Speak and unSpeak with Praat" (PDF). Glot International. 5 (9/10): 341–347.
^ "Release version 6.4.07, March 17, 2024".
^ "License". Phonetic Sciences | Praat. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^ "Praat: doing phonetics by computer". Retrieved 20 September 2017.
^ "UMass redesign of Praat logo | UMass Linguistics". 19 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-23.