Instruction on using PRAAT

 For the two assignments you should learn how to use PRAAT if you don't already

know the program.  The Institute will have a tutorial on it, as given in the following 

announcement.

NEW: Praat Workshop*
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This workshop will take place on Sunday, July 10, in MUEN E064, from
1-5PM. Praat is a powerful, open-source phonetics program which offers a
magnificent host of tools for the recording, analysis, measurement and
editing of speech sounds. Unfortunately for new users, Praat can be as
intimidating as it is powerful, and the initial learning curve can make
getting started with Praat seem more daunting than it really has to be. In
the first hour of the workshop, designed for people with little experience
with Praat or digital audio, participants will discuss the very
basics--tasks like opening files, making recordings, viewing spectrograms
and waveforms, measuring durations and formant heights, and making TextGrid
annotations. In addition, participants will discuss the basics of digital
audio, discussing different audio formats, sampling rates and all the
other relevant facets of audio digitization. For the remainder of the
workshop, participants will dive in to more advanced Praat usage. This
workshop will be led by Will Styler, a CU PhD student and research assistant
in CU's Phonetics Lab. Will has spent countless hours working in Praat, both
as a researcher performing measurements and as a programmer, creating and
troubleshooting automated methods for measuring vowel nasality, creak and
resonance.