Praat 3.9, 18 October 2000
Editors:
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Shift-click and shift-drag extend or shrink selection in editor windows.
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Grouped editors can have separate zooming and scrolling (FunctionEditor preferences).
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Cursor follows playing sound in editors; interruption by Escape key moves the cursor.
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TextGridEditor: optimized for transcribing large corpora: text field, directly movable boundaries, more visible text in tiers, SpellingChecker, type while the sound is playing, complete keyboard navigation, control font size, control text alignment, shift-click near boundary adds interval to selection.
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Stereo display in LongSound and TextGrid editors.
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LongSoundEditor and TextGridEditor: write selection to audio file.
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SoundEditor: added command Extract selection (preserve times).
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IntervalTierEditor, DurationTierEditor.
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Added many query commands in editors.
Phonetics library:
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Sound: To Formant...: sample-rate-independent formant analysis.
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Sound: To Harmonicity (glottal-to-noise excitation ratio).
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Pitch: support for ERB units, draw all combinations of line/speckle and linear/logarithmic/semitones/mels/erbs, optionally with TextGrid, Subtract linear fit.
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Spectrum: Draw along logarithmic frequency axis.
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TextGrid: modification commands, Extract part, Shift to zero, Scale times (with Sound or LongSound).
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Matrix: To TableOfReal, Draw contour...
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Concatenate Sound and LongSound objects.
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File formats: save PitchTier in spreadsheet format, read CGN syntax files (XML version), text files now completely file-server-safe (independent from Windows/Macintosh/Unix line separators).
Statistics and numerics library:
Phonology library:
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OTGrammar: To PairDistribution.
Graphics:
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Full support for colour inkjet printers on Windows and Macintosh.
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Full support for high-resolution colour clipboards and metafiles for Windows and Macintosh programs that support them (this include MS Word for Windows, but unfortunately not MS Word for Macintosh).
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Colour in EPS files.
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Interpolating grey images, i.e. better zoomed spectrograms.
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Linux: support for 24-bits screens.
Audio:
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Asynchronous sound play.
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Linux: solved problems with /dev/mixer (“Cannot read MIC gain.”) on many computers.
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Added possibility of zero padding for sound playing, in order to reduce clicks on some Linux and Sun computers.
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LongSound supports mono and stereo, 8-bit and 16-bit, μ-law and A-law, big-endian and little-endian, AIFC, WAV, NeXT/Sun, and NIST files.
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Read two Sounds from stereo file... supports 8-bit and 16-bit, μ-law and A-law, big-endian and little-endian, AIFC, WAV, NeXT/Sun, and NIST files.
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SoundRecorder writes to 16-bit AIFC, WAV, NeXT/Sun, and NIST mono and stereo files.
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Sound & LongSound: write part or whole to mono or stereo audio file.
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Read Sound from raw Alaw file.
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Artword & Speaker (& Sound) movie: real time on all platforms.
Scripting:
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Formulas 5. Mathematical functions: added statistical functions: χ2, Student T, Fisher F, binomial, and their inverse functions.
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Windows: program praatcon for use as a Unix-style console application.
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Windows and Unix: Praat can be run with a command-line interface without quitting on errors.
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Unix & Windows: can use <stdout> as a file name (supports pipes for binary data).
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sendpraat now also for Macintosh.
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sendsocket.
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Read from file... recognizes script files if they begin with “#!”.
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Script links in ManPages.
Documentation
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Tutorials on all subjects available through Intro.
Links to this page
© ppgb, October 18, 2000