
Hopefully others have more encouraging things to say. Praat scripts (for acoustic analysis) Praat scripting is a way to automate measurements in Praat that are otherwise done manually. So unfortunately this is a "cannot reproduce" (albeit not on an identical system), and the best I can suggest is combing through the numerous Linux PulseAudio troubleshooting guides. The newest sound object opened should be selected by default. To do this, from Praat, go to Open>Open long sound fIle.

0 startofsilence rectangular 1 no mySilence Create Sound from formula. Open Praat, and load the audio file into it as a LongSound object. Praat script Insert silence author Daniel Hirst daniel.hirst.
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I have no speculations as to why this is happening all I can say is that playing sounds works well for me via PulseAudio on both Ubuntu 14.04 (laptop) and Xubuntu 14.04 (desktop). Standard procedure for troubleshooting silent or noisy output No sound: Check that your audio equipment is switched on, as necessary Check any sound programs you are using Check sound source selections in the Windows volume control. Download the script file to the same folder. Your error, in contrast, appears to be praat failing to connect to PulseAudio, and asking you to switch to ALSA via PortAudio as a fallback. But you can generate many types of sounds. When this sound is selected/highlighted, click 'View and edit'. Once you have done this, you will see the new sound available and highlighted in the 'Praat Objects' window: Listen to your sound.

You can analyze, synthesize, manipulate speech and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis with it. P R A A T is not a text-to-speech system: you cannot type in an English sentence and have the program read it aloud. You can give the sound a name if you want (the default is just 'untitled'), and then click 'Save to list & Close'. analyzed 47 normal and pathological voices with the MDVP and Praat and found no significant differences in the shimmer calculated by the software. Praat is a freeware program for the analysis and reconstruction of acoustic speech signals. I still get those errors with praat 6.0.04 if I ask praat to use ALSA via PortAudio (see screenshot, and note the different error message) but so far I never get errors when praat 6.0.04 output sound system is set to use PulseAudio (much gratitude to for this enhancement, by the way). Previous reports have shown that the MDVP and Praat analysis produce equivalent mean F0, whereas jitter and shimmer differ significantly 21,22,23. I for one would often get errors during sound playback on pre-6.0 versions of praat, e.g., when playing a sound in praat just after using the keyboard hotkeys to change system volume level. without a hint of irony, it expresses the authors wish to allow users to carry out a fruitful search and successful work with TextGrids and audio files. What I meant, is: please confirm which device you had selected.
