When you open Praat, two windows will pop up. The first one is called ‘Praat Objects’. This is your main workspace. You load and save files from here, start all sorts of analyses and generally manage all the files you’re working with. You will find further explanation of the different things you can do here in the following sections of this manual.

The other one is called ‘Praat picture’. As a beginner, you are rather unlikely to ever need this window, and if indeed you do, it will pop up automatically, so you might as well close it for now.