sendpraat - doing phonetics by computer

timeOut
              the number of seconds that sendpraat will wait for an answer before writing an error  message.   A
              timeOut  of 0 means that the message will be sent asynchronously, i.e., that sendpraat will return
              immediately without issuing any error message.

       program
              the name of a running program that uses the Praat shell.

       message ...
              a sequence of Praat shell lines (commands and directives).  Each  line  is  a  separate  argument.
              Lines that contain spaces should be put inside double quotes.

       This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissière <rafael@laboissiere.net> for the  Debian  system  (but
       may  be  used  by others).  It was based on the information provided by the help message of the sendpraat
       program itself.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL-3.

                                                 April 22, 2013                                     SENDPRAAT(1)

       This manual page documents the sendpraat command.  It was written for the Debian distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       sendpraat  is  a  program  for  sendings  messages  to  a running program that uses the Praat shell, like
       praat(1).

              sendpraat 0 praat Quit

       Causes  the  program praat to quit (gracefully).  This works because “Quit” is a fixed command in Praat’s
       Control menu.  Sendpraat will return immediately.

              sendpraat 1000 praat "Play reverse"

       Causes the program praat, which can play sounds, to play the  selected  Sound  objects  backwards.   This
       works  because  “Play  reverse”  is an action command that becomes available in Praat’s dynamic menu when
       Sounds are selected.  Sendpraat will allow “praat” at most 1000 seconds to perform this.

              sendpraat praat "execute ~/MyResearch/MyProject/MyScript.praat"

       Causes the program “praat” to execute a script.  Sendpraat will allow praat at most 10 seconds  (the  de‐
       fault time out).

              sendpraat als "for i from 1 to 5" "Draw circle... 0.5 0.5 0.1*i" "endfor"

       Causes the program als to draw five concentric circles into its Picture window.

       sendpraat - doing phonetics by computer

praat has an on-line documentation; just launch praat and look at the Help menu entry.

       For  further information, see the Praat website (http://www.praat.org).  A good Beginner’s Guide, written
       by Sidney Wood, is available at https://person2.sol.lu.se/SidneyWood/praate/frames.html

sendpraat [timeOut] program {message ...}