Praat: doing phonetics by computer

By Paul P. G. Boersma, D. Weenink. 2003

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Homophony and morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English 1 (2015, methodology): “These files could then be used for further segmentation and analysis with the help of the acoustic analysis software Praat (Boersma & Weenink 2013).”
OpenEAR — Introducing the munich open-source emotion and affect recognition toolkit (2009, neutral): “Most toolkits that include feature extraction algorithms are targeted at speech recognition and speech processing, such as the Hidden Markov Toolkit (HTK) [16], the PRAAT Software [1], the Speech Filling System (SFS) from UCL, and the SNACK package for the Tcl scripting language.”
A quick, gradient Bilingual Dominance Scale* (2009, methodology): “Speech was recorded directly onto a Macintosh computer using PRAAT speech analysis software (Boersma and Weenink, 2008).”
Focus, Word Order and Intonation in Hindi (2008, methodology): “For each constituent in (4), the maximum F0, the minimum F0 and the duration were detected using a Praat script.”
A Tandem Algorithm for Pitch Estimation and Voiced Speech Segregation (2010, methodology): “We use Praat [5] which is a standard pitch estimation algorithm, to estimate the target pitch from a premixed target ut-terance.”
Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic Amazonian species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) (2009, methodology): “Praat 4.2.22 for MacOS X (Boersma & Weenick, 2006) software was used to generate audiospectrograms and oscillograms.”