Resources¹ for
Praat: doing phonetics by computer

Rob van Son, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Where to get praat: Praat.org

Community: Praat-Users-List for all your questions and answers

GitHub page: Praat · GitHub

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Essentials

1. Praat Basics: Introduction to the Software by Joey Stanley & Lisa Lipani - University of Georgia
2. Praat tutorial by Maria Gouskova - New York University
3. Segmentation and Annotation in Praat by Aletheia Cui - University of Pennsylvania
4. Praat Course by Fernanda Barrientos (scripting)
5. Scripting at Praat.org (scripting reference)
6. Speech Signal Processing with Praat (PDF) by David Weenink (Advanced materials, 328 pages)

Introductions

• Praat.org introductory tutorial to Praat

• Praat Basics: Introduction to the Software by Joey Stanley & Lisa Lipani - University of Georgia

• 1.2. Introduction of Praat from EdU HK

Tutorials

• Praat manuals by others at Praat.org (in several languages)

• Praat tutorial by Maria Gouskova - New York University

• Praat Tutorials by Joey Stanley - University of Georgia

• Working with PRAAT (PDF) by Pascal van Lieshout - University of Toronto

• Using Praat for Linguistic Research by Will Styler

• Praat Manual from EdU HK

• Segmentation and Annotation in Praat by Aletheia Cui - University of Pennsylvania

• Recording with Praat by Aletheia Cui - University of Pennsylvania

• whisper.cpp by Anastasia Shchupak (at Praat.org)
  Using Whisper speech recognition natively in Praat

• Speech recognition by Anastasia Shchupak (at Praat.org)

• Transcription with whisper.cpp by Anastasia Shchupak (at Praat.org)
  In addition to the instructions at Praat.org for MS Windows, installing a Whisper model for Praat is also easy on a Mac using the terminal ²

Scripting

• Scripting at Praat.org

• Praat Course by Fernanda Barrientos

• Scripting and tools by Mauricio Figueroa - Universidad de Concepción (UDEC)

• Speech Signal Processing with Praat (PDF) by David Weenink (328 pages)
  A comprehensive book on using Praat for SSP

Script repositories

• Some basic praat scripts by Pengfei Shao

• SpeCT - The Speech Corpus Toolkit for Praat by Mietta Lennis - University of Helsinki

• Praat scripts by Christian DiCanio - University at Buffalo

• Praat Scripts by Matthew Winn - University of Minnesota

• Praat_Scripts by Romain Mendez

• Praat scripts by Cong Zhang - Newcastle University

• Praat Vocal Toolkit by Ramon Corretge

• Whisper in Praat by Gert Foget Hansen - University of Copenhagen

• Praat Plugin: AudioTools by Shai Cohen - Bar-Ilan University

Special projects

• Vowel Triangle by Rob van Son

• Pitch and Intensity ranges by Rob van Son

• Pseudonymize Speech by Rob van Son

Praat from Python

• praatIO - GitHub by timarth

• praatio at pypi.org (library)

• Praanscribe by Ali Çağan Kaya - Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara

• Parselmouth - GitHub by Yannick Jadoul - Sapienza University of Rome & Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• praat-parselmouth · PyPI at pypi.org (library)

Useful speech corpora

• Corpus Gesproken Nederlands (CGN) at INT Taalmaterialen (Dutch and Flemish, free NC license required)

• JASMIN-spraakcorpus at INT Taalmaterialen (Dutch and Flemish, free NC license required)

• IFA Dialog Video corpus by Rob van Son (Dutch)

• The IFA Spoken Language Corpus by Rob van Son (Dutch)

• Oral cancer speech corpus by Bence Halpern & Thomas Tienkamp (US English)

• Corpus Pathologische en Normale Spraak (COPAS) at INT Taalmaterialen (Flemish, free license required)

• UASpeech by Statistical Speech Technology Group (US English, free license required)

• The TORGO database by The University of Toronto (Canadian English, NC free license required)

• Pathological Speech (TORGO + UA-Speech + LibriSpeech Normal) at Hugging Face

• Parallel Audiobook Corpus by Ribeiro, Manuel Sam (UK English)

• Librivox (free public domain audiobooks)

• ASVspoof corpora from the Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge

• Common Voice by Mozilla Data Collective

• MLCommons Datasets by ML Commons

• Voxpopuli · GitHub by META

• Voxceleb 1&2· Hugging Face by A. Nagrani, J. S. Chung, W. Xie, A. Zisserman - University of Oxford, UK

Link lists to speech corpora

• Clarin Spoken Corpera by Clarin (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)

• Corpora of Disordered Speech by Clarin (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)

• Open Speech and Language Resources by openslr.org

• A list of accessible speech corpora for ASR, TTS, and other Speech Technologies by coqui

• VoxForge

• ELRA Catalogue (non commercial use)