Praat 3.7, 24 March 1998

Editors:

•  In all FunctionEditors: drag to get a selection.

Phonetics library:

•  Many new query (Get) commands for Sound, Intensity, Harmonicity, Pitch, Formant, Ltas, PitchTier, IntensityTier, DurationTier, FormantTier.
•  Many new modification commands.
•  Many new interpolations.
•  Sound enhancements: Sound: Lengthen (overlap-add)..., Sound: Deepen band modulation...
•  Source-filter synthesis tutorial, Sound & IntensityTier: Multiply, Sound & FormantTier: Filter, Formant: Formula (frequencies)..., Sound: Pre-emphasize (in-place)....

Labelling

•  TextGrid queries (Get times and labels in a script).
•  TextGrid: Count labels....
•  PointProcess: To TextGrid (vuv)...: get voiced/unvoiced information from a point process.
•  IntervalTier to TableOfReal: labels become row labels.
•  TextTier to TableOfReal.

Numerics and statistics library

•  Multidimensional scaling (Kruskal, INDSCAL, etc).
•  TableOfReal: Set value, Formula, Remove column, Insert column, Draw as squares, To Matrix.

Phonology library

•  OT learning: new strategies: weighted symmetric plasticity (uncancelled or all).

Praat shell

•  First Linux version.
•  Eight new functions like e.g. hertzToBark in Formulas 5. Mathematical functions.
•  Praat script: procedure arguments; object names.

Documentation:

•  230 more man pages (now 630).
•  Hypertext: increased readability of formulas, navigation with keyboard.

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