From: Kare Sjolander <kare@speech.kth.se> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT - WaveSurfer 1.0 released Date: 20 Mar 2001 09:48:30 -0800 WaveSurfer 1.0 -------------- We are happy to release WaveSurfer version 1.0 WaveSurfer is a tool for recording, playing, editing, viewing, printing, and labelling audio data. WaveSurfer is suited for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. This release also focuses on developers wishing to use WaveSurfer in custom applications, example plug-ins and applications are provided in the source release. WaveSurfer is a Tcl application built using the Snack Sound Toolkit. The binary releases have been created using the freeWrap 4.4 tool. Highlights: * Multi-platform - Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2K, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and SGI IRIX * Flexible interface - quick and easy navigation in multiple sounds * Common sound file formats - WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, and NIST/Sphere * Transcription plugin supports encodings and Unicode * Reads and writes several transcription file formats, HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat * Unlimited file size - playback and recording directly from/to disk * Sound analysis - e.g. spectrogram and pitch analysis * Customizable - users can create their own configurations * Extensible - new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture * Embeddable - WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications * Scriptable - hosts a built-in script interpreter * Localization support WaveSurfer is being developed at the Centre for Speech Technology (CTT) at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, and is provided as open source, under a BSD-style license. WaveSurfer is available for download in binary format or with full source code. Download at http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ Regards, Kare Sjolander & Jonas Beskow [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]