What was new in 5.3?

5.3 (15 October 2011)

5.2.46 (7 October 2011)

  • Corrected the same very old bug as in 5.2.44, but now also for opening and saving files.
  • Many better messages.

5.2.45 (29 September 2011)

  • Spectrum window: Move cursor to nearest peak.
  • Table: Save as comma-separated file....
  • Windows: you can now change the font size of the script window.
  • Windows scripting: the Info window now updates while you are writing to it.
  • Windows: error messages now stay at the front so that you never have to click away an invisible message window anymore.

5.2.44 (23 September 2011)

  • Corrected a very old bug in the history mechanism (the button title wouldn't always show up).

5.2.43 (21 September 2011)

  • Linux: you can now change the font size of the script window.
  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when opening an already open file in the script window.

5.2.42 (18 September 2011)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that prevented formulas from working on FormantGrid objects.

5.2.41 (17 September 2011)

  • Improved dashed-dotted lines in EPS files.
  • Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that caused Praat to crash when running an ExperimentMFC.

5.2.40 (11 September 2011)

  • Corrected a bug in the 64-bit Windows edition that led to an incorrect location for the preferences files.

5.2.39 (10 September 2011)

  • 64-bit edition for Windows.
  • Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash instead of saying “undefined” when reporting the shimmer of a sound with fewer than 3 pulses.

5.2.38 (6 September 2011)

  • Corrected several bugs that were introduced in 5.2.36 in the Inspect window.

5.2.37 (2 September 2011)

  • Graphics: added the Chinese phonetic symbols ɿ and ʅ. See Phonetic symbols: vowels.
  • Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that caused Praat to crash when querying formant quantiles.

5.2.36 (30 August 2011)

  • Graphics: added superscript diacritics as single symbols: ʰ (\^h), ʲ (\^j), and many more; also ‿ (\_u). See Phonetic symbols: diacritics.
  • Praat fully converted to C++ (this may initially cause some bugs, but will be more reliable in the end).

5.2.35 (5 August 2011)

  • Corrected the menus of the Sound and TextGrid windows.

5.2.34 (3 August 2011)

  • Insert picture from file... now works on Windows (as well as on the Mac).
  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when playing a LongSound.

5.2.33 (29 July 2011)

  • Improved the reliability of sound playing and several other things.
  • Improved several error messages.

5.2.32 (22 July 2011)

  • Corrected several problems with error messages.
  • Corrected a bug that could cause slow execution of scripts with forms.

5.2.31 (21 July 2011)

  • Corrected a bug that caused an incorrect window size in the VowelEditor.
  • Corrected a bug that caused incorrect error messages when opening a FLAC file as a LongSound.
  • Sound window: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when zooming in on the left or right edge.

5.2.30 (18 July 2011)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.29 whereby the list of object actions could stay empty after an error message in a script.
  • Corrected a bug in Klatt synthesis whereby the generation of a sound could be refused.

5.2.29 (12 July 2011)

  • More accurate error checking, due to Praat's conversion to C++ (last C-only version was 5.2.17).

5.2.28 (28 June 2011)

  • Corrected some Polygon bugs.

5.2.27 (19 June 2011)

  • Polygon: Draw (closed)....
  • PointProcess: To Sound (phonation)...: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash if pulses lay outside the time domain.

5.2.26 (24 May 2011)

  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash on some platforms when reading a Praat binary file.
  • ExperimentMFC: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash if an experiment contained zero trials.
  • Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when merging multiple IntervalTiers.

5.2.25 (11 May 2011)

  • OT learning: corrected a crashing bug from Get candidate....

5.2.24 (10 May 2011)

  • Ability to open WAV files that contain incorrect information about the number of samples.
  • Removed an old bug that could cause Praat to fail to read a chronological TextGrid text file.

5.2.23 (1 May 2011)

  • Removed a bug introduced recently that could cause Praat to crash when working with derivatives of TableOfReal (such as Distributions).

5.2.22 (14 April 2011)

  • ExperimentMFC: reaction times for key presses.
  • Linux: more reliable start-up on German systems.

5.2.21 (29 March 2011)

  • Scripting: removed a crashing bug introduced for colour names in 5.2.20.

5.2.20 (25 March 2011)

  • Scripting: removed a large memory leak for indexed variables.
  • Scripting: removed a small memory leak for colour names.
  • Support for very long file paths on the Mac.

5.2.19 (16 March 2011)

  • ExperimentMFC: corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.18 that could cause Praat to crash when extracting results from an incomplete experiment.

5.2.18 (9 March 2011)

  • ExperimentMFC: incomplete experiments can nevertheless output their incomplete results.

5.2.17 (2 March 2011)

  • Better names for Table opening and saving commands.
  • ExperimentMFC: reaction times for mouse clicks.
  • Linux/GTK: corrected triple clicks in ExperimentMFC.

5.2.16 (20 February 2011)

  • Better support for WAV files with special “chunks” in them.
  • Manual: documentation of explicit formulas for jitter measurements.

5.2.15 (11 February 2011)

  • Sounds: Concatenate with overlap....

5.2.14 (8 February 2011)

  • Repaired crashing bug in Manipulation window introduced in 5.2.13.

5.2.13 (7 February 2011)

  • Renamed Write commands to Save commands.
  • Scripting: allow pause forms without Stop button (see Scripting 6.6. Controlling the user).
  • GTK: correct behaviour of default buttons.

5.2.12 (28 January 2011)

  • Renamed Edit buttons to View & Edit.
  • Better visibility of dragged things on Linux.

5.2.11 (18 January 2011)

  • Better visibility of dragged things (sound selection, tier points, TextGrid boundaries) on Windows and Linux.

5.2.10 (11 January 2011)

  • Renamed Read and Write menus to Open and Save.
  • Sound: use of Formula (part)... can speed up formulas appreciably.

5.2.09 (9 January 2011)

  • Much improved scripting tutorial.
  • Listening experiments can now show pictures instead of just texts (on the Mac).
  • EPS files can now be many miles wide instead of just 55 inches.

5.2.08 (1 January 2011)

  • Improved manual.
  • Improved memory allocation on 32-bit platforms: less probability of crashes when you approach the 2 GB memory limit gradually, and a new “low on memory; save your work now” warning.
  • Removed IntervalTier and TextTier datatypes from Praat (old scripts that use them will continue to work).

5.2.07 (24 December 2010)

  • Support for reading and writing multi-channel sound files (i.e. above two-channel stereo).

5.2.06 (18 December 2010)

  • Picture window: a new (the fourth) line type, namely dashed-dotted.
  • Support for analysing and drawing multi-channel sounds (i.e. above two-channel stereo).
  • Can read some EEG files (BioSemi 24-bit BDF) as a Sound and a TextGrid object.
  • Linux: compatibility with computers without English language support.
  • Macintosh: support for high-plane (i.e. very uncommon) Unicode characters in file names (as already existed on Unix and Windows).

5.2.05 (4 December 2010)

  • Regular expressions: better Unicode support.
  • Scripting window: command Convert to C string.

5.2.04 (27 November 2010)

  • Scripting: allow directory (folder) selector windows; see Scripting 6.6. Controlling the user.

5.2.03 (19 November 2010)

  • Scripting: support for string arrays.

5.2.02 (17 November 2010)

  • TextGrid window: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash (instead of doing nothing) when you tried to add boundaries if the selection ran from the penultimate interval to the end of the TextGrid.
  • Scripting: support for arrays with multiple indexes.
  • Linux: made spectrogram drawing compatible with Ubuntu 10.10.
  • Linux: made sound more easily available on Ubuntu 10.10.

5.2.01 (4 November 2010)

  • Scripting: support for numeric arrays.

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