diff --git a/audio/praat/Makefile b/audio/praat/Makefile
index b6ce5808ee93..330db5186d1e 100644
--- a/audio/praat/Makefile
+++ b/audio/praat/Makefile
@@ -1,47 +1,49 @@
 PORTNAME=		praat
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=		6.4.37
+DISTVERSION=		6.4.65
 CATEGORIES=		audio science
 
 MAINTAINER=	adridg@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer
 WWW=		https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ \
 		https://github.com/praat/praat/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libasound.so:audio/alsa-lib \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz
 # These are recommended but I can't tell the difference
 RUN_DEPENDS=	Charis>=0:x11-fonts/charis \
 		DoulosSIL>=0:x11-fonts/doulos
 
 USES=		compiler:c++17-lang gnome iconv pkgconfig xorg
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_GNOME=	cairo gdkpixbuf gtk30
 USE_XORG=	x11
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/praat \
 		share/man/man1/praat.1.gz \
 		share/applications/${PORTNAME}.desktop \
 		share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/${PORTNAME}.svg
 
+WRKSRC=			${WRKDIR}/praat.github.io-${DISTVERSION}
+
 post-patch:
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|^CPPFLAGS =|CPPFLAGS +=|' \
 		${WRKSRC}/*/Makefile \
 		${WRKSRC}/external/*/Makefile
 	${CP} ${WRKSRC}/makefiles/makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa \
 		${WRKSRC}/makefile.defs
 	@${CP} ${WRKSRC}/main/praat-480.svg \
 		${WRKSRC}/praat.svg
 
 do-install:
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/praat ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${FILESDIR}/praat.1 ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man1
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${PORTNAME}.svg \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/main/${PORTNAME}.desktop \
 		${STAGEDIR}${DESKTOPDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/praat/distinfo b/audio/praat/distinfo
index d4f09c4792ed..28cc3fdb70a2 100644
--- a/audio/praat/distinfo
+++ b/audio/praat/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1751323437
-SHA256 (praat-praat-v6.4.37_GH0.tar.gz) = 53ff4352d0f0451368926a518a460ff78712380f9c712539716273a318a8adf1
-SIZE (praat-praat-v6.4.37_GH0.tar.gz) = 89528430
+TIMESTAMP = 1777321258
+SHA256 (praat-praat-v6.4.65_GH0.tar.gz) = bb3f9c520f93f4786903d59d7f64acdc4704d40ed88b4bbfd52ec75f07be6182
+SIZE (praat-praat-v6.4.65_GH0.tar.gz) = 134345538
diff --git a/audio/praat/files/patch-makefiles_makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa b/audio/praat/files/patch-makefiles_makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1428e06e8586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/audio/praat/files/patch-makefiles_makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- makefiles/makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa.orig	2026-04-19 21:54:48 UTC
++++ makefiles/makefile.defs.freebsd.alsa
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LINK ?= $(CXX)
+ LINK ?= $(CXX)
+ 
+ # -DALSA and -DJACK: Use ALSA and Jack audio in pa_unix_hostapis.c
+-AUDIO = -DALSA -DJACK
++AUDIO = -DALSA # -DJACK
+ 
+ # FreeBSD pretends to be Linux for most of the code; add CPPFLAGS
+ # explicitly because GNU make / gcc uses those preprocessor flags,
+@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ EXECUTABLE = praat
+ 
+ EXECUTABLE = praat
+ 
+-LIBS = `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` -L$(LOCALBASE)/lib -lasound -ljack -lm -lpthread -ltinfow
++LIBS = `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` -L$(LOCALBASE)/lib -lasound -lm -lpthread -ltinfow
+ 
+ AR = ar
+ RANLIB = ls