Topic-181: Introduction to PRAAT Manual The manual which we are going to use in this course was developed by the faculty (Sonya Bird and Qian Wang) at University of Victoria Canada. It is an excellent manual with worksheets and carefully designed ten labs. We will be conducting some of the important experiments from the first five labs from this lab manual. Having conducted some of the important experiments from the initial five labs, it is hoped that you will be able to carry on with the rest of the experiments by yourself. In case of any problem, you can write to the developers of Praat software.You can also drop queries on the yahoo Praat group. Remember that Praat only requires a very modest experience of computer and you can easily conduct experiments if you are using personal computer at a very initial level. It is very important for learning phonetics and phonology in general and acoustic analysis of speech in particular and will help you a lot in your future research work in the area of phonetics and phonology especially acoustic phonetics.
