6.4 (15 November 2023)
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• New pitch analysis methods: Sound: To Pitch (filtered ac)... and Sound: To Pitch (filtered cc)....
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• Sound: To Pitch (filtered ac)... has become the preferred method for measuring vocal-fold vibration and intonation (Sound: To Pitch (raw cc)... is still the preferred method for voice analysis). See how to choose a pitch analysis method.
6.3.20 (24 October 2023)
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• SpeechSynthesizer and automatic alignment in TextGridEditor: worked around a bug introduced in 6.3.18 that caused incorrect rendering of phonemes consisting of four UTF-8 bytes (such as /ɔː/).
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• SpeechSynthesizer and automatic alignment in TextGridEditor: worked around a very old bug that deleted word-final /l/ in Dutch and English.
6.3.19 (20 October 2023)
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• MacOS: resolved a crash when Praat started up on macOS 12 or older (worked around a bug in the Xcode linker that comes with macOS 14 Sonoma).
6.3.18 (8 October 2023)
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• SpeechSynthesizer: included the new version of eSpeak (development 1.52), which has 133 languages.
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• Add to menu...: you can now add separators, headers and indented submenus to menus in editor windows.
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• Scripting: new functions
index_caseInsensitive
, rindex_caseInsensitive
, startsWith_caseInsensitive
, endsWith_caseInsensitive
fileNames_caseInsensitive$#
, folderNames_caseInsensitive$#
.
6.3.17 (10 September 2023)
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• SoundEditor: three Paste options, namely Paste before selection (Shift-Command-V), Paste over selection (Option-Command-V), and the already existing Paste after selection (still Command-V).
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• All editor windows: extended the old single-level Undo and Redo to a ten-level Undo and Redo.
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• Scripting: the new
runSystem$
and runSubprocess$
return the output of the system command or subprocess.
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• Scripting:
runSystem
, runSystem$
, runSubprocess
and runSubprocess$
report any error messages generated by the system command or subprocess.
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• PointEditor (pulses): settable Period floor, Period ceiling, Maximum period factor and Maximum amplitude factor, for jitter and shimmer measurements.
6.3.16 (29 August 2023)
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• Sound analysis areas: better visible contrast in intensity curve (green on lime).
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• Windows: repaired a bug introduced in 6.3.10 (as a result of the repair mentioned there) by which the Demo window would be insensitive to arrow keys.
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• SpeechSynthesizer: repaired a bug that caused Get phonemes from text... to return empty text.
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• Repaired a bug that caused Praat to crash when you supplied 0 for the channel number in Sound: Get nearest zero crossing....
6.3.15 (23 August 2023)
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• SpeechSynthesizer: improvements in Get phonemes from text...
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• Scripting:
part#
, part##
, selected$#
.
6.3.14 (4 August 2023)
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• Repaired a bug that occurred when saving a FormantPath to disk.
6.3.13 (31 July 2023)
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• Repaired a bug introduced in 6.3.12 by which a link to a file wasn’t found in external manual pages.
6.3.12 (24 July 2023)
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• Improvements in manual, including corrections on layout problems introduced in version 6.3.11.
6.3.11 (17 July 2023)
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• VowelEditor: repaired a bug by which the VowelEditor wouldn’t start up if an incorrect marks file had previously been specified.
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• Mac: use a Cherokee font that distinguishes "ka" and "wo" well.
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• OTMulti: vertical constraint names support newlines and disharmonies.
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• Text windows are one tab plus 84.5 characters wide.
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• Table: Get all values in column....
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• Undocumented alpha support for Praat notebooks.
-
• Formulas:
correlation
(vec1#
, vec2#
), vertical$
(for formatting string arrays).
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• Scripting:
readFile#
, readFile##
.
6.3.10 (3 May 2023)
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• Windows: repaired a bug by which key strokes would no longer go to the Demo window after a pause window with no text fields was closed.
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• Repaired a bug in the VowelEditor by which it would crash when starting up if fewer than 4 numbers had been set in the “Extra formant–bandwidth pairs” field.
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• FormantPathEditor improvements.
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• Undocumented alpha support for Praat notebooks.
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• Scripting: vector literals can be indexed.
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• Better interactions between editor scripts and pause windows.
6.3.09 (2 March 2023)
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• SpeechSynthesizer can do eSpeak’s grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in 130 languages.
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• FormantPath can now have time stretches that are not aligned to frame boundaries.
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• Stabler handling of edge cases in editor scripting.
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• Corrected an at least 23-year-old bug by which menu titles could not be greyed out on Windows.
6.3.08 (10 February 2023)
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• Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which
word
and sentence
would not work in new-style script forms.
6.3.07 (6 February 2023)
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• Corrected an old bug that caused Matrix: Draw as squares to crash on a 1×1 matrix.
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• NoulliGrid window: “NoulliGrid” menu.
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• Scripting: faster vectors in arguments to
runScript()
.
6.3.06 (31 January 2023)
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• Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which
optionmenu
would not work in new-style script forms.
-
• Scripting:
min()
, max()
, imin()
and imax()
for vectors.
6.3.05 (27 January 2023)
-
• Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which some old-style forms could not be read.
-
• Repaired an old bug by which
chooseReadString$()
could crash on Linux.
6.3.04 (24 January 2023)
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• Playing multiple sounds with Play now concatenates them without breaks, and is interruptable by the Escape key.
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• Renamed the remaining occurrences of Preferences to Settings (old scripts will continue to work).
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• Create Polygon from values...
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• Sound: To Sound (derivative)...
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• Scripting: forms now look more like other commands.
-
• Scripting: forms can contain
infile
, outfile
, folder
, realvector
, positivevector
, integervector
and naturalvector
fields.
-
• Scripting: in forms and pause forms, you can now set the number of lines in
text
, infile
, outfile
, folder
, and vector fields.
6.3.03 (17 December 2022)
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• Sound files: read Kay® Nasometer™ files (as separate channels).
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• Script window: indent and exdent.
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• Scripting: conserve editor environment in
runScript
.
6.3.02 (29 November 2022)
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• Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.20 by which typing Tab would not start a Sound.
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• Sound window: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.19 by which drawing selection hairs could not be switched off (or on) when painting a spectrogram to the Picture window.
6.3.01 (21 November 2022)
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• Fixed a crash introduced in 6.3 when closing an editor window by choosing Close (or by typing Command-W).
What used to be new?
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• What was new in 6.4?
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• What was new in 6.3?
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• What was new in 6.2?
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• What was new in 6.1?
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• What was new in 6.0?
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• What was new in 5.4?
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• What was new in 5.3?
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• What was new in 5.2?
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• What was new in 5.1?
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• What was new in 5.0?
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• What was new in 4.6?
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• What was new in 4.5?
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• What was new in 4.4?
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• What was new in 4.3?
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• What was new in 4.2?
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• What was new in 4.1?
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• What was new in 4.0?
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• What was new in 3.9?
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• What was new in 3.8?
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• What was new in 3.7?
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• What was new in 3.6?
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• What was new in 3.5?
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• What was new in 3.3?
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• What was new in 3.2?
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• What was new in 3.1?
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