Phon 1.6 release

[Barbara Davis]

Congratulations Yvan and team!
Babs Davis

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Yvan Rose <yrose at mun.ca> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
>
> It is with great pleasure that we are now releasing version 1.6 of Phon.
> This version comes with significant improvements, as detailed below.
>
> *Session Editor*
> • New layout management system
> • Layout presets, ability to create user-customized layouts
> • Inside the Record Menu, functions to cut/copy/paste records
> • Changed name of 'Merged Session' function to 'Derived Session'
> • Improved handling of Session Information data (e.g. media files)
> • Added syllabifier for Cree
> • Added systems for PCC (percent consonant correct) and PVC (percent vowel
> correct) calculations
> (Special thanks to Cynthia Core for her collaboration on this project)
> • Added Quick Search functions; moved record list function to Quick Search
> - Export to CSV from Quick Search
> - Using Quick Search, multiple record lists can also be opened and used
> with different filters
> • Added characters and diacritics support in our IPA set
> • Update to the English IPA dictionary of pronounced forms
> • Aligned Phones results now always appears as IPA Target ↔ IPA Actual
>
> *Query and Reporting*
> • New XML-based query database system (we now store result sets in xml
> format within the project)
> • Newly designed approach to query result visualization
> • Streamlined report generation
> • Improved system for saving results into the Query History
> • Ability to exclude results from reports (instead of deleting results)
> • New result sets editor (which now appears as a separate window)
> • Ability to save query scripts as XML files which include both the
> scripting functions and the parameters
> • Improvements to Harmony/Metathesis feature specification method
>
> *TalkBank compatibility*
> • PhonTalk utility for converting data from Phon into TalkBank XML and
> vice versa now embedded as a plugin into Phon
> • Added support for %mor, %trn, and %gra for import/export
> • Added significant support for main-line CHAT encoding
>
> This version also comes with several bug fixes and performance
> improvements in the areas of media support, memory management, etc.
>
> *Discussion group*
> Phon users are encouraged to subscribe to the discussion group (no Gmail
> account required to subscribe):
> http://groups.google.com/group/phon
>
> -To join the group, click on the “Sign up” link and follow the
> instructions.
> -Group's email address (for message posting): phon at googlegroups.com
>
> *Acknowledgments*
> *Special thanks*: While it is impossible to name everyone who ended up
> being involved in one way or another in this project, we owe special thanks
> to a wonderful group of phon users and beta testers, without whom it would
> have been much more difficult to produce this new update. We look forward
> to continuing our with you!
>
> *Funding*: Current development of Phon and PhonBank is supported by the
> National Institutes of Health. Earlier development of Phon was funded by
> grants from National Science Foundation, Canada Fund for Innovation, Social
> Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Petro-Canada Fund for
> Young Innovators, and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) and the
> Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
>
>
> The Phon Team
>
>
>
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Barbara L. Davis, Ph.D.
Houston Harte Centennial Professor of Communication
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Jesse H. Jones Communication Center
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The University of Texas at Austin
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