Latest changes in Praat.
6.3.04 (24 January 2023)
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Playing multiple sounds with Play now concatenates them without breaks, and is interruptable by the Escape key.
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Renamed the remaining occurrences of “Preferences” with “Settings” (old scripts will continue to work).
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Create Polygon from values...
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Sound: To Sound (derivative)...
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Scripting: forms now look more like other commands.
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Scripting: forms can contain infile, outfile, folder, realvector, positivevector, integervector and naturalvector fields.
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Scripting: in forms and pause forms, you can now set the number of lines in text, infile, outfile, folder, and vector fields.
6.3.03 (17 December 2022)
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Sound files: read Kay® Nasometer™ files (as separate channels).
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Script window: indent and exdent.
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Scripting: conserve editor environment in
runScript
.
6.3.02 (29 November 2022)
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Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.20 by which typing Tab would not start a Sound.
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Sound window: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.19 by which drawing selection hairs could not be switched off (or on) when painting a spectrogram to the Picture window.
6.3.01 (21 November 2022)
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Fixed a crash introduced in 6.3 when closing an editor window by choosing Close (or by typing Command-W).
6.3 (15 November 2022)
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Number-aware sorting for labels when drawing tables.
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Scripting: sort$#( ), shuffle$#( ), sort_numberAware$#( ).
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Fixed a crash when saving (or copying) a DTW object.
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Scripting: fixed a crash when using Close after "editor".
6.2.23 (8 October 2022)
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Fix a crash introduced in August 2020 when in the Sound window you would select a part, then click "sel", then select a part, then do Cut, then click "bak".
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Rename should leave an object's ID in the title of the editor window.
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Windows graphics should support a resolution of 690 dots per inch.
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Editor scripting: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby an added editor script would lose the editor context if it contained a form, after Apply was clicked.
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Editor windows (such as the Sound window): showing a dialog window that calls a script (e.g. log 3, log 4 or an added command) should remove the previous version of that window.
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Mac editor windows: dialog windows that call scripts should disappear when the editor goes away (as on Windows and Linux).
6.2.22 (6 October 2022)
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Playing cursor in Pitch, PitchTier, KlattGrid and PointProcess windows.
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Corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby an added editor script would lose the editor context if it contained a form, after OK was clicked.
6.2.21 (1 October 2022)
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Corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby a sub-window in Inspect would crash upon clicking Change.
6.2.20 (24 September 2022)
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More balanced colours.
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Hierarchical menus in editor windows.
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Sound window scripting: understand "editor$" again in log format (bug since 6.2.15).
6.2.19 (12 September 2022)
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Visible window queries in Time menu.
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Correct execution of added Objects window script after running a failing editor script (decades-old bug).
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Made Erase first work again (bug introduced in 6.2.15).
6.2.18 (2 September 2022)
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SoundRecorder: support for up to 20 (instead of 8) input devices.
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FormantPath window: can now be viewed even without a Sound.
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Windows audio: SoundRecorder prevents high CPU usage when not recording.
6.2.17 (23 August 2022)
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FormantPath window: more information shown.
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Windows audio: compatible with speakers that do not support mono.
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Editor scripts: made two old commands available again (removed in 6.2.15).
6.2.16 (18 August 2022)
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FormantPath window: non-editable TextGrid.
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Scripting the Demo window on the Mac: better guarantees that demoShow() actually drains on current systems.
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TextGrid works again with LongSound (bug introduced in 6.2.15).
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Editor scripts work again from menus (bug introduced in 6.2.15).
6.2.15 (14 August 2022)
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Legends in editor windows.
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The menus Time and Play are new in editor windows, and the menus Spectrum and Formant were renamed to Spectrogram and Formants.
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More menu commands in editor windows.
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Rid frames around areas in editor window, except if editable.
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The FormantPath window can include a copy of a TextGrid.
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Restored horizontal and vertical dragging in tier areas (had been absent for two years).
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Removed several small bugs (and probably introduced a couple of new ones) in editor windows.
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Restored the original Praat icon.
6.2.14 (24 May 2022)
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TextGrid window: repaired a bug introduced in 6.2.10 by which a click on the boundary insertion circle would copy the contents of a new interval from another tier (if that other tier stood selected).
6.2.13 (18 May 2022)
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Playing a sound on the Mac: prevented an audible click at the end of audio output (appending a silence at the end is no longer needed).
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FormantPath window: more flexible visualization.
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New versions of PortAudio and Unicode.
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Removed the sendpraat directive.
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Removed several small interface bugs, and improved manual.
6.2.12 (17 April 2022)
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Table: Get sum...
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Scripting an editor window can now query analyses that are not visible (e.g. after zooming).
6.2.11 (8 April 2022)
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Windows: Demo window could hang with use of Chinese keyboard (after Play).
6.2.10 (17 March 2022)
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TextGrid window: restored the splitting of labels.
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Save Demo Window as PDF file... (Goodies menu).
6.2.09 (15 February 2022)
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Windows: support for a screen resolution of 204 dpi.
6.2.08 (5 February 2022)
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Mac: more checks on audio devices when playing sounds.
6.2.07 (28 January 2022)
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Prevented a rare crash in the TextGrid window.
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Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.04 by which some file names were unreadable.
6.2.06 (20 January 2022)
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Mac: prevent Demo window from hanging on copy or paste.
6.2.05 (5 January 2022)
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Calling Praat from the command line: the switch
--send
sends a script to a different already running GUI instance of Praat; this is more flexible than using sendpraat, because --send
will start a new instance of Praat if Praat is not yet running.
6.2.04 (18 December 2021)
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Praat now includes eSpeak 1.51, raising the number of supported languages from 100 to 130.
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Scripting: support for
infile
, outfile
and folder
fields in forms.
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Calling Praat from the command line: the switch
--open
now adds files to an already running instance of Praat; this was already the case on Windows, but it now works in the same way on the Mac and on Linux.
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Scripting on Mac: multiline text fields in forms have scroll bars and behave like other fields.
6.2.03 (3 December 2021)
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Mac: made Enter key work as expected (i.e. character selection) on Japanese keyboards in multi-line text fields in dialogs and TextGrid window.
6.2.02 (2 December 2021)
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Fixed a hang if there were negative pitch values in Sound: Change Gender.
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Fixed a crash if the size of a PCA did not match the size of a TableOfReal.
6.2.01 (17 November 2021)
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Sound window: corrected a bug that caused a thick waveform during or after playing.
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