praat command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

praat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: praat: command not found

Solutions to praat: command not found

How To Fix praat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu praat is provided by praat package.

praat is:

According to its authors, praat is “doing phonetics by computer”. Through its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction. Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity are also available. Other features are segmentation, labelling using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics. Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has provisions for communicating with other programs.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install praat

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install praat.

sudo apt -y install praat

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install praat

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix praat command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.