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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