Praat 3.8, 12 January 1999

Phonetics library

• New objects: LongSound (view and label long sound files), with editor; PairDistribution.

• Overlap-add manipulation of voiceless intervals, version 2: quality much better now; target duration is exactly as expected from Duration tier or specified lengthening in Sound: Lengthen (overlap-add)....

• Audio: Escape key stops audio playing (on Mac also Command-period).

• SoundRecorder: allows multiple recordings without close; Play button; Write buttons; buffer size can be set.

• Reverse a Sound or a selection of a Sound.

• Sound: Get nearest zero crossing....

• Formant: Scatter plot (reversed axes)...

• TextGrid & Pitch: Speckle separately...

• Extract Sound selection (preserve times) in TextGridEditor.

• More query commands for Matrix, TableOfReal, Spectrum, PointProcess.

Phonology library

• 25-page OT learning tutorial.

• Made the OT learner 14 times as fast.

Platforms

• May 23: Windows beta version.

• April 24: Windows alpha version.

Files

• Read more Kay, Sun (.au), and WAV sound files.

• Read Strings from raw text file...

• Create Strings as file list...

• Read IntervalTier from Xwaves...

• hidden Read from old Windows Praat picture file...

Graphics

• Use colours (instead of only greys) in Paint ellipse... etc.

• More true colours (maroon, lime, navy, teal, purple, olive).

• Direct printing from Macintosh to PostScript printers.

• Hyperpage printing to PostScript printers and PostScript files.

• Phonetic symbols: raising sign, lowering sign, script g, corner, ligature, pointing finger.

Shell

• November 4: all dialogs are modeless (which is new for Unix and Mac).

• September 27: sendpraat for Windows.

Scripting

• January 7: scriptable editors.

• October 7: file I/O in scripts.

• August 23: script language includes all the important functions for string handling.

• June 24: string variables in scripts.

• June 22: faster look-up of script variables.

• June 22: unlimited number of script variables.

• April 5: suspended chopping of trailing spaces.

• March 29: enabled formulas as arguments to dialogs (also interactive).

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