What was new in 6.1?

6.1 (13 July 2019)

6.0.57 (1 July 2019)

  • Repaired a crash when an editor window zoomed in to a zero time range.
  • Repaired a crash when playing a matrix movie with one row or a constant value.
  • Repaired a crash when reconstructing a TableOfReal from a PCA.
  • Scripting: allow comments after `else`, `endif`, `endfor`...

6.0.56 (20 June 2019)

  • Windows: file dropping on the Praat icon works for higher-Unicode file names.
  • SpellingChecker: Unicode support.

6.0.55 (13 June 2019)

  • Unicode normalization in file names.

6.0.54 (6 June 2019)

  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.51 that could cause incorrect axes in Demo window.

6.0.53 (26 May 2019)

  • Much faster playing of short parts of long sounds that need resampling.
  • Better handling of broken CSV files.
  • 64-bit floating-point WAV files.

6.0.52 (2 May 2019)

  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.51 that could cause turning a Discriminant into a Configuration to crash.
  • Removed a bug introduced in contour grey drawing in August 2017.

6.0.51 (29 April 2019)

  • Script window: Use Selection for Find.
  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.41 that could cause Praat to crash after removing an element from a Strings or a row from a TableOfReal.

6.0.50 (31 March 2019)

  • Manual updates, speed, more tests.
  • Scripting: `rowSums#` (), `columnSums#` (); `randomGauss##` () finally with four arguments.

6.0.49 (2 March 2019)

  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.41 whereby a script could misreport an undefined table value.
  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.44 whereby an MFCC's maximum frequency could be ignored.
  • Pitch: Tabulate candidates.
  • SoundSet.

6.0.48 (17 February 2019)

  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.44 whereby Praat could crash when drawing a function without any points.
  • Removed a bug whereby Praat would not start up on macOS 10.10 (because of required GPU libraries).

6.0.47 (8 February 2019)

  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.44 whereby a cepstral peak prominence would be computed incorrectly.

6.0.46 (3 January 2019)

  • Removed a crashing bug in the LongSound window introduced in 6.0.44.
  • Removed a bug causing incorrect conversion from Formant to LPC introduced in 6.0.44.
  • More space for actions in buttons window.

6.0.45 (1 January 2019)

  • Removed a crashing bug in EditDistanceTable introduced in 6.0.44.
  • Removed a crashing bug in KlattGrid drawing introduced in 6.0.44.
  • Removed a bug introduced in 6.0.44 whereby old HMM files were read incorrectly.

6.0.44 (31 December 2018)

  • Bug fixes and speed.
  • Bug fixes and speed.

6.0.43 (8 September 2018)

  • Removed a very old bug that could create invalid TextGrids during forced alignment.
  • Windows: repaired a bug introduced in 6.0.41 that caused a crash in several places (such as when changing the sample rate in the SoundRecorder) when Praat had been started with a double click.
  • Windows: repaired a bug introduced in 6.0.41 that caused Praat to crash when exiting.

6.0.42 (15 August 2018)

  • Repaired a bug introduced in 6.0.41 that caused a crash in pause windows.

6.0.41 (6 August 2018)

  • Interoperability: the Windows edition can now communicate with other software in UTF-8.

6.0.40 (11 May 2018)

  • Scripting: ``selected#``.
  • Table window: cell selection.
  • Unicode-savvy regular expressions.

6.0.39 (3 April 2018)

  • More string matching (case-insensitive, word-level).

6.0.38 (29 March 2018)

  • Concordance: TextGrid: Tabulate occurrences....
  • Some Independent Component Analysis on EEG.
  • Removed many small bugs.

6.0.37 (3 February 2018)

  • Graphics: fixed crashing bug with \un trigraph (_).

6.0.36 (11 November 2017)

  • Many more languages for SpeechSynthesizer and automatic alignment (new eSpeak).

6.0.35 (16 October 2017)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in 6.0.23 by which Remove right boundary would sometimes incorrectly refuse.

6.0.34 (10 October 2017)

  • Scripting: arrays in menu commands in scripts.
  • Inspect: made a button visible that had disappeared in 6.0.33.

6.0.33 (26 September 2017)

  • Pitch: Subtract linear fit...: correct a bug that prevented computation in the ERB domain.
  • Scripting: made `object[xx].xmin` work again.
  • Removed a bug in Polynomial: Evaluate... introduced in 6.0.32.

6.0.32 (16 September 2017)

  • Table: allow spaces in column names.
  • Settings windows no longer replace your visible expressions with their resulting values.
  • Scripting: formulas using the tilde.
  • Optimality Theory learning: corrected a bug introduced in 6.0.30 that could cause the editor to crash on the Mac.
  • EEG: corrected a bug that could cause an infinite loop when doing principal component analysis.
  • Scripting: faster interpreter.

6.0.31 (21 August 2017)

  • Scripting: more vectors and matrices.
  • Numerics: faster and more precise sums, means, standard deviations.

6.0.30 (22 July 2017)

  • Removed a bug that caused an incorrect title for a PitchTier or PointProcess window.
  • Removed a bug that caused Praat to crash when doing a linear regression on a Table with no rows.
  • Scripting: `object[]`, vectors.
  • Graphics: better text drawing details.
  • Linux: possibility to compile Praat without a GUI but with graphics file output.

6.0.29 (24 May 2017)

  • Sound window: channel muting.
  • Linux: support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indic, Arabic and Hebrew characters in TextGrids and elsewhere.

6.0.28 (23 March 2017)

  • Scripting: `demoPeekInput` () for animations in combination with `sleep` ().

6.0.27 (18 March 2017)

  • TextGrid: fewer error messages in concatenation of multiple TextGrids.
  • Scripting: `sleep` () to pause Praat temporarily: useful for animations in combination with `demoShow` ().

6.0.26 (2 March 2017)

  • Mac: more corrections in `demoShow` () and `blankWhilePlaying`.
  • PraatBarren: better error message when an attempt is made to run PraatBarren interactively.

6.0.25 (11 February 2017)

  • Mac: made `demoShow` () and `blankWhilePlaying` compatible with MacOS 10.12 Sierra.
  • Mac SoundRecorder: more sampling frequencies, on behalf of external USB microphones.

6.0.24 (23 January 2017)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in 6.0.23 by which Remove right boundary would choose the wrong tier.
  • TextGrid window: click to insert a phonetic symbol from an IPA chart.

6.0.23 (12 December 2016)

  • Linux: fixed a bug that caused Praat to crash when playing a sound of more than 7 channels.
  • Change Gender: fixed a bug introduced in 6.0.22 by which the pitch range factor could not be 0.
  • Improvements in the manual and in texts.

6.0.22 (15 November 2016)

  • Scripting: correct error messages for expressions like: `5 + “hello”`
  • Command line: the --open option works correctly in the GUI if you open multiple files.

6.0.21 (25 September 2016)

  • ExperimentMFC: you can now specify font sizes and response keys for goodness judgments.
  • Table: when drawing ellipses, a font size of 0 can now be used to prevent drawing the labels.
  • Mac: dragging selections repaired for System 10.11.6 (but we advise to upgrade to 10.12).
  • Mac: re-enabled Return key for confirming some dialog boxes.

6.0.20 (3 September 2016)

  • Can open UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark.
  • Scripting improvement: function names can now be used as names of indexed variables.

6.0.19 (13 June 2016)

  • Mac: dragging selections repaired for System 10.11.5.

6.0.18 (23 May 2016)

  • Windows: better dotted lines.
  • TextGrid window: again better automatic alignment.

6.0.17 (21 April 2016)

  • TextGrid window: better automatic alignment.

6.0.16 (5 April 2016)

  • Scripting: “hashes”: variables can now be indexed with strings rather than only with numbers.
  • TextGrid window: fewer out-of-order messages in automatic alignment.

6.0.15 (21 March 2016)

  • TextGrid window: removed a bug whereby Praat could do automatic alignment only on sounds sampled at 44.1 kHz.
  • TextGrid window: improved the location of the final boundary in automatic alignment.
  • Table window: added a preference for the interpretation of graphical style symbols (`%#^_@`).

6.0.14 (11 February 2016)

  • Linux: corrected a bug by which the Tab shortcut for playing a sound would not work if the NumLock key was on.
  • Mac 64-bit: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash if the Tab key was pressed in a dialog window.

6.0.13 (31 January 2016)

  • Windows: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing a script window.
  • Mac 64-bit: progress bars with movies.

6.0.12 (24 January 2016)

  • Windows 32-bit: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing the Sound window after popping up dialog boxes.
  • Mac 64-bit: better `demoShow` ().
  • Mac 64-bit: working Matrix movies and articulatory synthesizer movies.

6.0.11 (18 January 2016)

  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when drawing a Spectrum with undefined values.
  • Mac 64-bit: corrected a bug by which some text in the Sound window would sometimes not be drawn.
  • Mac 64-bit demo window: improved the working of `demoShow` ().

6.0.10 (8 January 2016)

  • Corrected a bug that would cause Praat to crash when starting an ExperimentMFC window.
  • Mac 64-bit: corrected a bug that would cause black selections in the Sound window.

6.0.09 (1 January 2016)

  • Windows 64-bit: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing the Sound window after popping up dialog boxes.

6.0.08 (5 December 2015)

  • Windows command line: the `--a` option can be used when redirecting the output to pipes and files.
  • Linux command line: the `--run` option is not needed in the Terminal when redirecting output (unless you redirect standard output, standard input and standard error).

6.0.07 (30 November 2015)

  • Mac 64-bit: repaired dragging selections (which got broken in the El Capitan fix in 6.0.06).

6.0.06 (29 November 2015)

  • Mac 64-bit: correct early Info window updates and `demoShow` () in El Capitan.
  • Manual updates.
  • Corrected some small memory leaks.

6.0.05 (8 November 2015)

  • A manual page that describes TextGrid file formats.
  • Corrected a bug that prevented some KlattGrid tiers from being edited.
  • 32-bit Linux: correct use of PulseAudio (note: 6.0.04 on Debian already had this correct).

6.0.04 (1 November 2015)

  • Corrected a bug that caused an incorrect number in FFNet files; unreadable FFNet files can be sent to the Praat authors for repair.

6.0.03 (31 October 2015)

  • Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when the Soundrecorder window was closed.
  • Scripting: when calling Praat from the command line, added the `--run` option to force script execution.

6.0.02 (30 October 2015)

  • Corrected the redrawing of analyses in the Sound window after a change in the sound.

6.0.01 (29 October 2015)

  • Windows: fixed a bug that caused Praat to crash at start-up in some Windows versions.

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