Creating spectrograms in PRAAT: The briefest possible intro with a hands-on activity

Creating spectrograms in PRAAT: The brief-est possible intro with a hands-on activity (Styles, 2018).Open Educational Resource A spectrogram is a way of visualizing the energy carried by sound. It allows us to see the energy in air molecules vibrating at different frequencies. Spectrograms look very complicated, and extremely science-y, but they’re really not too tricky, once you understand a little bit about how they work. They are very easy to produce using simple free tools. These few slides will show you how to create a spectrogram from the speech of your own voice, using a regular laptop or computer, and how to use spectrograms to explore some of the properties of your own voice. Assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics, phonetics or acoustics.