Sound editor menus

Praat for Beginners:
The Sound editor: the menus

• The Sound editor menus contain commands that affect various aspects of what you see displayed in the Sound editor window or of what you want to do with your sound signal. These commands are outlined below and are described in more detail in other relevant parts of the manual. Only commands of interest to beginners will be described.

• File menu:
  • LExtract sound selections as Sound objects in the Objects listL
  • LSave sound selectionsL as sound files

   

• Edit menu:
  • LCopy and pasteL sound selections
  • LSilence and reverseL sound selections

• Query menu: Log any measurements made from
  what is displayed in the Sound editor window

• View menu:
  • Zooming
  • Playback
  • Autoscaling

• Selection menu: Commands for positioning the cursor with precision

• Spectrum menu:
  • Turn spectrogram on/off
  • Set spectrogram analysis parameters
  • Extract the spectrogram to the Objects list
  • Measure points on the spectrogram
  • Paint the spectrogram image to the Picture window
  • Make spectral slices

• Pitch menu:
  • LTurn fundamental frequency on/offL
  • Set fundamental frequency analysis parameters
  • Extract the fundamental frequency display to the Objects list
  • Measure points along the frequency contour

• Intensity menu:
  • LTurn intensity on/offL
  • LSet intensity analysis parametersL
  • Extract the intensity display to the Objects list
  • Measure points along the intensity contour

• Formant menu:
  • Turn formant  tracking on/off
  • Set formant tracking parameters
  • Measure formant frequencies in the formant contours
  • Draw the formant contour in the Picture window

• Pulses menu:
  • Turn glottal pulses on/off
  • Extract the pulse display to the Objects list
  • Perform various voice quality analyses (jitter and shimmer)

• Help menu: Search the Praat program help file

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