A few months back, I commented that the Amplitude Bars in the Praat Phonetic Analysis software were broken on Intel Macs.

I’m very pleased to say that now, as of version 4.5.14, this has been fixed, and Praat is now back to full, Universal Health on the Mac OS (in addition to its windows and Linux versions). Thanks, David and Paul!

For those of you who might not be familiar with it, Praat is an open-source Phonetics program, recording short bits of sound, and producing spectrograms and waveforms which can be studied by the phonetically inclined. Here’s an example of a spectrogram and waveform of a sentence produce by Praat from a recording of myself saying “Phonetics makes me very, very happy”:
Phonetics

Praat is completely free, and it’s not Spyware or Adware. If you’re at all curious about it or want to check it out, I’d give it a download. Even if you don’t know much about it, it’s interesting to look at waveforms of spectrograms.

So, to the authors of Praat, thanks a great deal for providing this software, for making it free, and for keeping it up to date. It’s a wonderful tool, and I really appreciate it. :)

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