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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