A format as in this example will then be misleading. Therefore, if instead of setting a cursor line you selected a larger piece of the sound, 'time' will give the centre of the selection and 'f0' will give the mean pitch in the selection.īeware of the following pitfall: if your pitch units are not hertz, but semitones, then 'f0' will give the result in semitones. The words 'time' and 'f0' mean exactly the same as the result of the commands Get cursor and Get pitch. If you leave them out, the values will be written with a precision of 17 digits. The parts ':6' and ':2' denote the number of digits after the decimal point. If you now click at 3.456789876 seconds, and the pitch happens to be 355.266 hertz at that time, the following line will be appended to the log file and/or to the Info window: Time 'time:6' seconds, pitch 'f0:2' hertz Suppose you want to log the time of the cursor and the pitch value at the cursor. After this, you will move the cursor to various time locations and press F12 (or Shift-F12) each time, so that information about the current time will be written to the log file. Otherwise, you can change the log file name (with Log settings.). If you do want to use the logging facility, you typically start by deleting any old log file (by choosing Delete log file 1 or Delete log file 2), if you want to re-use the file name. Otherwise, you may prefer to use the TextGridEditor to mark time points and run an automatic analysis afterwards. The logging facility has been implemented in Praat especially for former users of Kay CSL, who have been used to doing it for years and like to continue doing it in Praat. The format of the line that Praat will write. On most platforms you can also use a home-relative name such as ~/Desktop/pitchLog.txt. Click Browse to select a file to write to.

This determines whether your log line will be written to log file 1 only, to the Info window only, or to both. With the log settings command window, you determine the following: Write log 1 to If you press Shift-F12 (or choose Log 2 from the Analysis menu), Praat will write a line to the Info window and/or to log file 2. It consists of a number of similar lines, whose format you determine with the log settings in the Analyses menu.Įvery time you press F12 (or choose Log 1 from the Analysis menu), Praat will write a line to the Info window and/or to log file 1. With some commands in the Analyses menu of the SoundEditor and TextGridEditor, you can write combined information about times, pitch values, formants, and intensities to the Info window and/or to a log file.Ī log file is a text file on disk.

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