(1) from "Rodriguez, Jose C" <[log in to unmask]> --- Laura - last year I took a Foundations in Linguistics class here at Emory and we used this software for assignments and some quizzes. It is indispensable for analyzing linguistic utterances and phonetics, though not particularly intuitive. If it is being used by a class and the professor plans on instructing students on the proper use, it will probably be fine. It is a very small install - I ran it on a Mac, running OSX Leopard (at the time) and it worked fine without any glitches. You might do a little searching on linguist sites or listserv archives and see if you can find out more. Jose (2) from Dennie Hoopingarner <[log in to unmask]> Praat is an incredibly useful program. I highly recommend it. I used it for my dissertation research. It can do acoustical analysis, speech synthesis, formant extraction, graphing, and much more. The interface is a bit clunky, and can be a little quirky, but the program itself is stable, never caused me any troubles. Praat is part of the standard installation in several computer labs at Michigan State. I haven't heard of any problems with the program. Hope this helps. (3) from "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> Nice little program--totally uninvasive. The linguists and phonetics teachers like to use it. It does what it is supposed to do and doesn't try to do anything else. Judy Shoaf University of Florida *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************