lWell, obviously you
can ‘automate things’ – i.e. while
you go and have a coffee you let your computer analyze the length of 500 vowels … and, if you want, it even does the stats right on the way.
lEverything that can be done in Praat can be automated with Praat scripting:
lPhonetic measures,
reading/writing files, printing to the screen, interacting with the user, manipulating sounds, comparing sounds, creating new files (e.g. TextGrids), adding annotation, reformatting sound files,
normalizing, ..