Praat 3.8, 12 January 1999
Phonetics library
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• New objects: LongSound (view and label long sound files), with editor; PairDistribution.
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• 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)....
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• Audio: Escape key stops audio playing (on Mac also Command-period).
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• SoundRecorder: allows multiple recordings without close; Play button; Write buttons; buffer size can be set.
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• Reverse a Sound or a selection of a Sound.
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• Sound: Get nearest zero crossing....
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• Formant: Scatter plot (reversed axes)...
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• TextGrid & Pitch: Speckle separately...
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• Extract Sound selection (preserve times) in TextGridEditor.
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• More query commands for Matrix, TableOfReal, Spectrum, PointProcess.
Phonology library
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• 25-page OT learning tutorial.
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• Made the OT learner 14 times as fast.
Platforms
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• May 23: Windows beta version.
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• April 24: Windows alpha version.
Files
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• Read more Kay, Sun (.au), and WAV sound files.
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• Read Strings from raw text file...
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• Create Strings as file list...
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• Read IntervalTier from Xwaves...
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• hidden Read from old Windows Praat picture file...
Graphics
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• Use colours (instead of only greys) in Paint ellipse... etc.
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• More true colours (maroon, lime, navy, teal, purple, olive).
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• Direct printing from Macintosh to PostScript printers.
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• Hyperpage printing to PostScript printers and PostScript files.
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• Phonetic symbols: raising sign, lowering sign, script g, corner, ligature, pointing finger.
Shell
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• November 4: all dialogs are modeless (which is new for Unix and Mac).
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• September 27: sendpraat for Windows.
Scripting
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• January 7: scriptable editors.
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• October 7: file I/O in scripts.
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• August 23: script language includes all the important functions for string handling.
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• June 24: string variables in scripts.
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• June 22: faster look-up of script variables.
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• June 22: unlimited number of script variables.
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• April 5: suspended chopping of trailing spaces.
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• March 29: enabled formulas as arguments to dialogs (also interactive).
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© Paul Boersma 1999