- Editors for Klatt synthesis.
- Corrected many bugs.
Dear Praat users,
you can now download Praat version 5.1 from www.praat.org.
The biggest new thing is David’s “Klatt synthesizer”, which has all features of the acoustic synthesizer by Klatt & Klatt (1990), and a bit more.
You can now edit formant contours (for synthesis) in a FormantGrid window.
You can create formant contours by dragging the mouse with David’s VowelEditor.
Unicode support has gradually grown much more reliable and extensive than in the original version 5.0; tens of thousands of characters are supported.
Experiment files now allow multiple lines in all texts.
Praat scripts now support pause windows, which was perhaps the most wanted feature. Pause windows are like the old small pause window but can ask the user to provide numbers and texts, and ask the user to choose between various ways of continuing. They look a bit like the usual settings windows, but receive their layout from the script on the fly.
Ola Söder contributed k-nearest-neighbours classification and k-means clustering.
best wishes,
Paul