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Pablo Arantes (UFSCAR) and Marcelo Vieira (McGill University, Canada)
March 1, 3, 5, 8, and 10.
From 2:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. (GMT-3/Brasília)

Enrollment limit: 30 participants

Level: Basic

The main objective is to introduce the students to the fundamentals of
Praat language and related resources. Students are expected to do the
proposed exercises in order to have a good comprehension of all concepts.

Program:

1 – Basic concepts and conditional statement (1^st March)

Introduction to the basic concepts related to scripting practices and
Praat language (variables, operators, vectors, form).
Discussion about the use of conditional statements (if…elsif…else…endif).

2 – Objects, loops and log files. (3^rd March)

Discussion about objects in Praat and how to deal with them.
Introduction to loops: for…endfor, while…endwhile…, repeat… until.
Discussion about creating tables with analysis results (appendFile and writeFile functions).

3 – Practice session: working with multiple files (5^th March)

The students will develop a script to extract acoustic information from different audios.

4 – Discussion about editor scripts and the use of other scripts (8^th March)

Introduction to the use of editor scripts.
Integration of editor scripts in a regular script.
How to call a script inside another script.

5 - Pause windows and procedures (10^th March)

The use of pause windows as a way to interact with users during the script execution.
The use of procedures to deal with repeatable routines.

 

Pre-requisites:

• Praat installed (praat.org)
• Basic knowledge of Praat routines: how to open and inspect Praat objects (sounds, TextGrids, etc),
  how to create TextGrids, how to do segmentations and transcriptions using TextGrids.
• Basic knowledge of acoustics (wave properties, f0, intensity, formants)

Bibliography

• Useful information can be found here : http://praatscripting.lingphon.net/syntax-2.html
• The Scripting Tutorial in Praat is another good information resource (https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Scripting.html)