What's new?

What's new?

Latest changes in Praat.

5.3.56 (15 September 2013)

Mac: 64-bit alpha version.
Linux: improved selecting in the Picture window.

5.3.55 (2 September 2013)

Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.54 by which you couldn't select a file for saving.

5.3.54 (1 September 2013)

Sound window: removed a bug introduced in 5.3.42 by which you couldn't ask for an odd number of poles in Formant Settings (by e.g. specifying "5.5" for the number of formants).
Linux: improved dragging of selections in the Picture window and the Sound window.

5.3.53 (9 July 2013)

Table: more drawing commands.

5.3.52 (12 June 2013)

Scripting: editor windows understand do and do$.

5.3.51 (30 May 2013)

Sound window: Extract selected sound for overlap....

5.3.49 (13 May 2013)

TextGrid window: alignment of the sound and the annotation in an interval, via Espeak.
Scripting: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.32 that could cause very slow running of scripts.

5.3.48 (1 May 2013)

Scripting: variable-substitution-free object selection and file writing.
Scripting: selectObject and removeObject can select or remove multiple objects at a time.

5.3.47 (23 April 2013)

OTGrammar: included Giorgio Magri's (2012) update rule (weighted all up, high down).

5.3.46 (21 April 2013)

Scripting: variable-substitution-free procedure calls.
Linux: made the Save menu compatible with Ubuntu 12.04.

5.3.45 (15 April 2013)

More parts of the manual reflect variable-substitution-free scripting.

5.3.44 (7 April 2013)

Create Sound as pure tone....
First steps towards variable-substitution-free scripting: the do, do$, writeInfo and appendInfo functions.

5.3.43 (27 March 2013)

Read and write stereo Kay sound files.
Phonetic symbols ʦ, ʧ and ʼ.
Network: Normalize weights..., List weights..., Weights down to Table....

5.3.42 (2 March 2013)

Repaired some minor bugs regarding synchronization between multiple windows.

5.3.41 (9 February 2013)

Linux: repaired a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing the Info window or a script window.

5.3.40 (2 February 2013)

Windows: better handling (in the LongSound window) of sounds that are too long to play.
Mac: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when closing the Strings window.
Linux: made audio output work again on 32-bit Linux.

5.3.39 (6 January 2013)

Formant & Spectrogram: To IntensityTier...

5.3.38 (4 January 2013)

ExperimentMFC: repaired a bug introduced in 5.3.36 that caused sound to fail to play completely if the screen did not blank.

5.3.37 (2 January 2013)

ExperimentMFC: after screen blanking, reaction times count from when the response buttons appear.

5.3.36 (1 January 2013)

ExperimentMFC: made it possible to blank the screen while the sound is playing.

5.3.35 (8 December 2012)

SpeechSynthesizer: made it possible to have more than one at a time.
Linux: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.

5.3.34 (21 November 2012)

Windows: corrected a bug that caused incorrect alignment of the buttons in the Objects window.
The new Sound: Combine to stereo can now work with Sounds of different durations, as the old could.
Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when creating a SpeechSynthesizer.

5.3.33 (20 November 2012)

Sound: Combine to stereo can now combine any number of Sounds into a new Sound whose number of channels is the sum of the numbers of channels of the original Sounds.
ERP: Down to Sound.

5.3.32 (17 October 2012)

Sound window: corrected the working of the "by window" scaling option.

5.3.31 (10 October 2012)

ERP: Down to Table...
Linux: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash after closing a file selector window for saving.

5.3.30 (6 October 2012)

Circumvented a rare Windows bug that could cause Praat to start to write 1.5 as 1,5 in some countries after opening a strange directory.
Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause Praat to crash when quitting.
Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that could cause the Objects window to look weird after resizing.

5.3.29 (30 September 2012)

EEG: Draw scalp..., including gray legend.
Made the new Sound scaling options available for LongSounds.

5.3.28 (28 September 2012)

Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that made Praat crash on OSX 10.5.

5.3.27 (27 September 2012)

Corrected a couple of small bugs.

5.3.26 (26 September 2012)

Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 that prevented Praat from running in batch mode.

5.3.25 (26 September 2012)

EEG: view of scalp distribution takes scaling options into account.
Linux: swipable Sound window and manual.
Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.24 whereby TextGrids could not be edited.

5.3.24 (24 September 2012)

More kinds of vertical scaling in e.g. Sound and EEG windows.
Rewritten user interface (may contain some bugs).

5.3.23 (7 August 2012)

Mac: removed a bug introduced in September 2011 that could cause incorrect behaviour of regular expressions since July 2012.

5.3.22 (21 July 2012)

Linux: removed a bug introduced in 5.3.21 that could cause Praat to crash when opening files.
Neural networks: correct writing and reading of learning settings.

5.3.21 (10 July 2012)

Linux: better folder choice in file selector window for opening files.
Repaired a bug that caused Praat to crash when opening a ManPages file on some platforms.

5.3.20 (5 July 2012)

EEG: Replace TextGrid.

5.3.19 (24 June 2012)

5.3.18 (15 June 2012)

Corrected a bug in Sound: Change gender... that caused a part of the sound not to be changed.

5.3.17 (12 June 2012)

EEG window: extent autoscaling by window.
ERPTier: Remove events between...

5.3.16 (23 May 2012)

5.3.15 (10 May 2012)

Improvements in clipboards, PDF and EPS files.

5.3.14 (28 April 2012)

Linux: Tab shortcut for playing the selection.
EPS files: higher minimum image resolution for spectrograms (300 instead of 106 dpi).

5.3.13 (11 April 2012)

EEG: Extract part...

5.3.12 (5 April 2012)

Praat picture file: allow larger function drawings (up to 10⁹ instead of 10⁶ points).
Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10 (support for unusual sampling frequencies when playing LongSounds).

5.3.11 (27 March 2012)

EEG: a selected ERPTier can extract events on the basis of a column of a selected Table.

5.3.10 (12 March 2012)

EEG: Concatenate.

5.3.09 (10 March 2012)

Better text-to-speech.

5.3.08 (5 March 2012)

Removed a bug introduced in 5.3.07 that could cause Praat to crash when viewing a LongSound.

5.3.07 (4 March 2012)

Praat can now save Sounds as 24-bit and 32-bit WAV files.

5.3.06 (28 February 2012)

5.3.05 (19 February 2012)

SpeechSynthesizer (New menu → Sound): text-to-speech.
EEG: better scalp distribution drawing for both 32-channel and 64-channel recordings.

5.3.04 (12 January 2012)

EEG: draw scalp distribution.
Linux: better audio compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10 (support for unusual sampling frequencies when playing Sounds).

5.3.03 (21 November 2011)

EEG: filtering, editing, more viewing.

5.3.02 (7 November 2011)

Corrected a bug introduced in 5.3.01 that could cause the PitchTier or PointProcess window to crash.
Corrected a bug that could cause the Info window to freeze after an error message in a script window.

5.3.01 (1 November 2011)

Macintosh and Windows: better window positioning if the Dock or Task Bar is on the left or right.
IPA symbol: you can now use \.f for the half-length sign (ˑ).
EEG window.

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