Praat--10/23/2012

I used the "21 accent" sound files in both Praat and another program called Audacity to compare the two. Audacity can do a lot of what Praat can do and at least changing the pitch of a sound file is much easier in Audacity. Praat is better for taking measurements but Audacity is much more user friendly and easier to navigate since it's pretty straightforward. I learned in class today that Praat is what is commonly used by linguists so anyone going into the field should at least know the basics about it.