What was new in 4.5?

4.5 (26 October 2006)

4.4.35 (20 October 2006)

  • In ManPages you can now draw pictures.

4.4.34 (19 October 2006)

  • Corrected a bug in the new Sound: To TextGrid (silences)....

4.4.33 (4 October 2006)

  • Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 4.4.31 that caused Praat to skip the first line of the Buttons file.

4.4.32 (30 September 2006)

  • Scripting: more techniques for object selection.
  • Scripting: more support for putting the results of the Info command into a string variable.

4.4.31 (23 September 2006)

  • Support for plug-ins.
  • Split between Create Strings as file list... and Create Strings as folder list....

4.4.30 (28 August 2006)

  • Table: Draw ellipse (standard deviation)...

4.4.29 (21 August 2006)

  • Allowed “European” symbols in file names and object names.

4.4.28 (10 August 2006)

  • Windows XP: Praat files can finally again be opened by double-clicking and by dragging them onto the Praat icon.
  • Scripting (Windows): removed a bug that caused Praat to crash if the script window was closed when a file selector window was open.

4.4.27 (4 August 2006)

  • Table window: corrected vertical scroll bar (on Windows).
  • Formulas: invSigmoid.
  • Logging: added `'power'` (and documented the `'freq'` command).
  • Removed a bug that caused Read two Sounds from stereo file... not to work in scripts.

4.4.26 (24 July 2006)

  • Sound & FormantTier: Filter: much more accurate.

4.4.25 (16 July 2006)

  • TextGrid reading: don't set first boundary to zero for .wrd label files.

4.4.24 (19 June 2006)

  • Scripting: regular expressions allow replacement with empty string.

4.4.23 (1 June 2006)

  • Table: ignore more white space.

4.4.22 (30 May 2006)

  • Scripting: replacing with regular expression. See Formulas 6. String functions.

4.4.21 (29 May 2006)

  • Made Manipulation objects readable again.

4.4.20 (3 May 2006)

  • Removed limit on number of menus (Praat could crash if the number of open windows was high).

4.4.19 (28 April 2006)

  • Table: Get mean..., Table: Get standard deviation..., Table: Get quantile....

4.4.18 (24 April 2006)

  • Table: View & Edit: view the contents of a table.
  • Table: Scatter plot....
  • Scripting: more warnings against missing or extra spaces.

4.4.17 (19 April 2006)

  • Table: Pool...: computing averages and medians of dependent variables for a selected combination of independent variables.
  • Table: Formula... accepts string expressions as well as numeric expressions.
  • Table: Sort... can sort by any number of columns.
  • Table: Create with column names....
  • Table: Report mean....
  • Formulas: `row$` and `col$` attributes.
  • Warning when trying to read data files whose format is newer than the Praat version.

4.4.16 (1 April 2006)

  • Spectrum window: dynamic range setting.
  • SoundRecorder: corrected a bug in the Intel Mac edition.

4.4.15 (30 March 2006)

  • Source code even more compatible with 64-bit compilers.

4.4.14 (29 March 2006)

  • Source code more compatible with 64-bit compilers.

4.4.13 (8 March 2006)

  • Table: To TableOfReal...: better handling of --undefined-- values (are now numeric).
  • MacOS X: TextGrid files can be double-clicked to open.
  • Create Strings as file list...: now handles up to 1,000,000 files per directory.

4.4.12 (24 February 2006)

  • TextGrid: removed a bug introduced in 4.4.10 that caused Praat to crash when converting an IntervalTier into a TextGrid.

4.4.11 (23 February 2006)

  • Listening experiments: removed a bug that could cause Praat to crash when an ExperimentMFC object was removed.

4.4.10 (20 February 2006)

  • Intel computers: corrected reading and writing of 24-bit sound files (error introduced in 4.4.09).
  • Create TextGrid: guard against zero tiers.
  • MacOS X: correct visibility of Praat icon.
  • MacOS X: correct dropping of Praat files on Praat icon.

4.4.09 (19 February 2006)

  • Macintosh: first Intel Macintosh version.
  • Windows: Create Strings from folder list....

4.4.08 (6 February 2006)

  • Much improved cepstral smoothing.

4.4.07 (2 February 2006)

  • More scripting facilities (local variables in procedures, e.g. `.x` and `.text$`).
  • Faster formulas.

4.4.06 (30 January 2006)

  • More scripting facilities (`Object_xxx [ ]`, `Self.nx`, `Table_xxx$ [ ]`, better messages).
  • Better reading and writing of Xwaves label files.

4.4.05 (26 January 2006)

  • ExperimentMFC: removed a bug that caused Praat to crash when the Oops button was pressed after the experiment finished.
  • TextGrid: an IntervalTier can be written to an Xwaves label file.

4.4.04 (6 January 2006)

  • Windows: Quicktime support (see at 4.4.03).

4.4.03 (6 January 2006)

  • Macintosh: Quicktime support, i.e., Read from file... can now read the audio from several kinds of movie files (.mov, .avi).

4.4.02 (5 January 2006)

  • OT learning: allow the decision strategies of Harmonic Grammar and Linear OT.

4.4.01 (2 January 2006)

  • Picture window: Logarithmic marks... allows reversed axes.
  • Manipulation window: removed a bug from Shift frequencies... that caused much too small shifts in semitones.
  • TextGrid: Remove point....

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