Who should use Praat?

Praat is an open-source project built for phoneticians.

Is Praat still active?

Unverified. Praat has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What projects are similar to Praat?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Input Masks for Contact Form 7, AgizoAI HTML AI Clean Up, and Teecontrol Course Data.

Praat is developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink.

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Praat

Name: Praat
Author: Paul Boersma and David Weenink

FlathubDesign & Creative

Praat is a computer program for analyzing, synthesizing, and manipulating speech. It provides tools for pitch, formant, intensity, and voice quality analysis, spectrograms, acoustic and articulatory synthesis, and speech modification. It is widely used in phonetics research.

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Overview

5 features

Praat is a Design & Creative project. It focuses on performing detailed phonetic analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of speech for research and publications. Praat is an open-source project aimed at phoneticians. Praat costs nothing to use. It ships for Linux.

Paul Boersma and David Weenink builds and maintains Praat. Among its 5 catalogued features are Speech Analysis, Speech Synthesis, and Speech Manipulation.

Speech Analysis
Speech Synthesis
Speech Manipulation
Spectrograms
Labelling

Built with & integrations

Runs on

Linux

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Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed29 Jul · 15:36 UTC
Praat verified against its public source
Source: PulseGate · Open

Frequently asked questions about Praat

What is Praat?: Praat focuses on performing detailed phonetic analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of speech for research and publications. It is catalogued under Design & Creative on PulseGate.
Who should use Praat?: Praat is an open-source project built for phoneticians.
Is Praat free?: Yes — Praat is free to use.
What platforms does Praat run on?: Praat runs on Linux.
Is Praat still active?: Unverified. Praat has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to Praat?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Input Masks for Contact Form 7, AgizoAI HTML AI Clean Up, and Teecontrol Course Data.Input Masks for Contact Form 7 AgizoAI HTML AI Clean Up Teecontrol Course Data
Who develops Praat?: Praat is developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink.

At a glance

Platforms: Desktop
Languages: English
First seen: 29 Jul 2026
Built for: phoneticians
Model: Open source
Solves: Performing detailed phonetic analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of speech for research and publications.

Registered as

Flathub: org.praat.Praat

Developer

Paul Boersma and David Weenink

Live coverage

Identity confidence: Medium · 70
Indexed: 29 Jul 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
First seen: Jul 2026
Last seen: 29 Jul 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: praat-flathub-org
Lifecycle state recorded: 29 Jul 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 29 Jul 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology (no inferred launch/funding milestones).
Name from: Written by a language model from the project's public pages.
Category from: Assigned by a language model.
Summary from: Taken from the project's own store listing.
Languages from: Detected by a language model from page content.
Last updated: 4 Aug 2026
Canonical URL: https://flathub.org/apps/org.praat.Praat

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