Re: Software for spectral analysis

[Paul Boersma <boersma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Annemaire Seither-Preisler wrote:
> which professional software for Macintosh (shareware) would you
> recommend for spectral analysis of complex acoustical signals? The
> program should allow to choose the type of analysis window and offer the
> possibility to display and print spectra in good quality.

The Praat program (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/) can do spectral analysis
on Macintosh, Windows, SGI, Linux, Solaris, and HPUX.

You can choose from several window types, including double Kaiser,
which has a sidelobe ripple of -190 dB. The Hamming window, with a ripple
of -40 dB, is often not good enough for clean signals.
   Praat displays the spectrogram on your screen in 30 shades of grey,
or on your PostScript printer either in photocopyable or publication quality.
You can also include the spectrograms as EPS pictures in your favourite
word processor.

The Praat program is shareware. You can obtain the address of the download
page by writing a message to me.

Best wishes,
   Paul

Paul Boersma
Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Herengracht 338, 1016CG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/