Query submenu

A submenu that appears in the Objects window if you select an object of almost any type.

Query commands give you information about objects.

Most query commands start with the word Get or sometimes the word Count. You will find these commands in two places: under the Query submenu that usually appears if you select an object in the list, and in the query parts of several menus of the editors (such as the Pitch menu, the Formants menu or the Spectrogram menu.

## Behaviour

If you click a query command, the answer will be written to the Info window.

## Scripting

In a script, you can still use query commands to write the information to the Info window but you can also use any query command to put the information into a variable. (see Scripting 6.3. Query commands). In such a case, the value will not be written into the Info window.

## Some pages that link here

## Query commands in the Praat program

  FAQ: Pitch analysis
  Formulas 8. Attributes of objects
  OT learning 7. Learning from overt forms
  Script for listing F0 statistics
  Scripting 3.3. Numeric queries
  Scripting 3.5. String queries
  Scripting 6.2. Writing to the Info window
  time domain
  Voice 6. Automating voice analysis with a script

The Praat program contains at least the following query commands:

- Confusion: Get fraction correct
- DurationTier: Get target duration...
- Excitation: Get loudness
- FilterBank: Get frequency in Hertz...
- Formant: Get bandwidth at time...
- Formant: Get maximum...
- Formant: Get mean...
- Formant: Get minimum...
- Formant: Get number of formants
- Formant: Get quantile...
- Formant: Get standard deviation
- Formant: Get time of maximum...
- Formant: Get time of minimum...
- Formant: Get value at time...
- Formant: List formant slope...
- Get area...
- Get frame number from time...
- Get high index from time...
- Get low index from time...
- Get nearest index from time...
- Get number of frames
- Get number of samples
- Get sample number from time...
- Get sampling frequency
- Get sampling period
- Get time from frame number...
- Get time from sample number...
- Get time step
- Harmonicity: Get maximum...
- Harmonicity: Get mean...
- Harmonicity: Get minimum...
- Harmonicity: Get standard deviation...
- Harmonicity: Get time of maximum...
- Harmonicity: Get time of minimum...
- Harmonicity: Get value at time...
- Harmonicity: Get value in frame...
- Intensity: Get maximum...
- Intensity: Get mean...
- Intensity: Get minimum...
- Intensity: Get standard deviation...
- Intensity: Get time of maximum...
- Intensity: Get time of minimum...
- Intensity: Get value at time...
- Intensity: Get value in frame...
- Ltas: Get bin number from frequency...
- Ltas: Get bin width
- Ltas: Get frequency from bin number...
- Ltas: Get frequency of maximum...
- Ltas: Get frequency of minimum...
- Ltas: Get highest frequency
- Ltas: Get lowest frequency
- Ltas: Get maximum...
- Ltas: Get mean...
- Ltas: Get minimum...
- Ltas: Get number of bins
- Ltas: Get standard deviation...
- Ltas: Get value at frequency...
- Ltas: Get value in bin...
- PitchTier: Get mean (curve)...
- PitchTier: Get mean (points)...
- PitchTier: Get standard deviation (curve)...
- PitchTier: Get standard deviation (points)...
- PointProcess: Get high index...
- PointProcess: Get interval...
- PointProcess: Get jitter (ddp)...
- PointProcess: Get jitter (local)...
- PointProcess: Get jitter (local, absolute)...
- PointProcess: Get jitter (ppq5)...
- PointProcess: Get jitter (rap)...
- PointProcess: Get low index...
- PointProcess: Get nearest index...
- Sound: Get absolute extremum...
- Sound: Get energy in air
- Sound: Get energy...
- Sound: Get intensity (dB)
- Sound: Get maximum...
- Sound: Get mean...
- Sound: Get minimum...
- Sound: Get nearest zero crossing...
- Sound: Get power in air
- Sound: Get power...
- Sound: Get root-mean-square...
- Sound: Get standard deviation...
- Sound: Get time of maximum...
- Sound: Get time of minimum...
- Sound: Get value at sample number...
- Sound: Get value at time...