What was new in 3.8?

## 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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