What was new in 4.4?

4.4 (19 December 2005)

4.3.37 (15 December 2005)

  • Principal component analysis: now accepts tables with more variables (columns) than cases (rows).
  • TIMIT label files: removed a bug that caused Praat to crash for files whose first part was not labelled.

4.3.36 (11 December 2005)

  • Ltas: Average.
  • Optimality Theory: compute crucial rankings (select OTGrammar + PairDistribution).

4.3.35 (8 December 2005)

  • ExperimentMFC: switched off warnings for stereo files.

4.3.34 (8 December 2005)

  • Sound window: the arrow scroll step is settable.
  • You can now run multiple listening experiments (ExperimentMFC) in one Run.
  • Formant: Get quantile of bandwidth....

4.3.33 (6 December 2005)

  • Removed three bugs introduced in 4.3.32 in ExperimentMFC.

4.3.32 (5 December 2005)

  • Many more possibilities in ExperimentMFC.

4.3.31 (27 November 2005)

  • Sound: To Ltas (pitch-corrected)...

4.3.30 (18 November 2005)

  • TableOfReal: Scatter plot: allows reversed axes.

4.3.29 (11 November 2005)

  • Windows: many more font sizes.

4.3.28 (7 November 2005)

  • Fontless EPS files: corrected character width for Symbol font (depended on SILIPA setting).
  • Windows: more reliable detection of home directory.

4.3.27 (7 October 2005)

  • TextGrid & Pitch: draw with text alignment.

4.3.26 (29 September 2005)

  • Macintosh: corrected error introduced in 4.3.25.

4.3.25 (28 September 2005)

  • Macintosh: allowed recording with sampling frequencies of 12 and 64 kHz.

4.3.24 (26 September 2005)

  • Table: Down to TableOfReal...: one column of the Table can be used as the row labels for the TableOfReal, and the strings in the remaining columns of the Table are replaced with whole numbers assigned in alphabetical order.

4.3.23 (24 September 2005)

  • Read Table from comma-separated file...
  • Read Table from tab-separated file...
  • Write picture as fontless EPS file: choice between XIPA and SILIPA93.
  • Bold IPA symbols in EPS files (fontless SILIPA93 only).

4.3.22 (8 September 2005)

  • Macintosh: variable scroll bar size (finally, 7 years since System 8.5).

4.3.21 (1 September 2005)

  • Macintosh: error message if any of the fonts Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol are unavailable at start-up.
  • Renamed Control menu to “Praat” on all platforms (as on the Mac), to reflect the fact that no other programs than Praat have used the Praat shell for five years.
  • Script editor: Undo and Redo buttons (only on the Mac for now).
  • Manual: corrected a bug that sometimes caused Praat to crash when trying to print.

4.3.20 (18 August 2005)

  • Log files: include name of editor window.

4.3.19 (20 July 2005)

  • Improved buttons in manual.
  • Read TableOfReal from headerless spreadsheet file...: allow row and column labels to be 30,000 rather than 100 characters.

4.3.18 (12 July 2005)

  • Glottal source for sound synthesis, corrected and documented.

4.3.17 (7 July 2005)

  • Glottal source for sound synthesis.
  • Multi-level Optimality Theory: parallel evaluation and bidirectional learning.

4.3.16 (22 June 2005)

  • Pitch drawing: corrected logarithmic scales.

4.3.15 (22 June 2005)

  • Graphics: better dotted lines in pitch contours; clipped pitch curves in editor windows.
  • Pitch analysis: more different units (semitones re 1 Hz).

4.3.14 (14 June 2005)

  • Scripting: regular expressions.
  • Removed a bug that caused Praat to crash if a proposed object name was longer than 200 characters.

4.3.13 (19 May 2005)

  • Macintosh: an option to switch off screen previews in EPS files.
  • Sources: compatibility of makefiles with MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows).

4.3.12 (10 May 2005)

  • Some more manual tricks.

4.3.11 (6 May 2005)

  • TextGrid editor: show number of intervals.

4.3.10 (25 April 2005)

  • Table: Get logistic regression....

4.3.08 (19 April 2005)

  • OT learning: store history with OTGrammar & Strings: Learn from partial outputs....

4.3.07 (31 March 2005)

  • Linux: removed a bug that could cause a sound to stop playing.

4.3.04 (9 March 2005)

  • Use SIL Doulos IPA 1993/1996 instead of 1989.

4.3.03 (2 March 2005)

  • TextGrid window: green colouring of matching text.
  • Regular expressions can be used in many places.
  • Pitch analysis: switched off formant-pulling.

4.3.02 (16 February 2005)

  • TextGrid: Remove boundary at time...
  • Scripting: corrected nowarn.
  • Linux: guard against blocking audio device.
  • Macintosh: guard against out-of-range audio level meter.

4.3.01 (9 February 2005)

  • Replaced PostScript font SILDoulosIPA with XIPA (adapted for Praat by Rafael Laboissière).
  • Sound: Set part to zero...
  • Pitch: To Sound (sine)...
  • Sound & TextGrid: Clone time domain.

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