Praat 3.5, 27 May 1997
New editors:
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TextGridEditor replaces and extends LabelEditor: edit points as well as intervals.
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AnalysisEditor replaces and extends PsolaEditor: view pitch, spectrum, formant, and intensity analyses in a single window, and allow pitch and duration resynthesis by overlap-add and more (would be undone in 3.9.19).
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SpectrumEditor allows you to view and edit spectra.
Praat shell:
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History mechanism remembers all the commands that you have chosen, and allows you to put them into a script.
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ScriptEditor allows you to edit and run any Praat script, and to put it under a button.
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All added and removed buttons are remembered across sessions.
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ButtonEditor allows you to make buttons visible or invisible.
Evaluations:
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In his 1996 doctoral thesis, Henning Reetz compared five pitch analysis routines; Sound: To Pitch (ac)... appeared to make the fewest errors. H. Reetz (1996): Pitch Perception in Speech: a Time Domain Approach, Studies in Language and Language Use 26, IFOTT, Amsterdam (ICG Printing, Dordrecht).
Documentation:
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140 more man pages (now 330).
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Tables and pictures in manual.
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Printing the entire manual.
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Logo.
New types:
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Labelling & segmentation: TextGrid, IntervalTier, TextTier.
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Analysis & manipulation: Analysis.
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Statistics: TableOfReal, Distributions, Transition
File formats:
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Read and write rational numbers in text files.
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Read 8-bit .au sound files.
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Read and write raw 8-bit two's-complement and offset-binary sound files.
Audio:
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16-bit interactive Sound I/O on Mac.
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Record sounds at 9.8 kHz on SGI.
New commands:
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Two more pitch-analysis routines.
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Sound to PointProcess: collect all maxima, minima, zero crossings.
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PointProcess: set calculus.
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TextGrid: extract time-point information.
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Compute pitch or formants at given time points.
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Put pitch, formants etc. in tables en get statistics.
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Many more...
Macintosh:
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16-bit interactive sound I/O.
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Fast and interpolating spectrogram drawing.
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Phonetic Mac screen font included in source code (as a fallback to using SIL Doulos IPA).
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Keyboard shortcuts, text editor, help under question mark, etc.
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