<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hi Fellow PHON Users</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">It's so exciting to know the upgrade is ready, just as I have come back to needing PHON. Thanks Yvan and team!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Is anyone else having trouble downloading the Windows file? Microsoft is blocking me from the file, saying "PHON-windows 64_0_0.exe is not a commonly downloaded file" and we should decide if we trust it. I've reported it as "safe" on the microsoft link, and the response is basically "thanks" with no further steps that I can see. The Mac version is fine, but most of my PHON3 files are on microsoft.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Help appreciated!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 6 Sept 2026 at 07:24, 'Lise Menn' via Info-CHILDES <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Wish I had enough hearing left to use it!</div>
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<b>From: </b><a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>> on behalf of Yvan Rose <<a href="mailto:yvan.rose@gmail.com" target="_blank">yvan.rose@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 5:58 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:phon@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">phon@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:phon@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">phon@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Introducing Phon 4.0<br>
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<div>Cheers, Babs!</div>
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<div>20 years of progress, lots of innovation, all this thanks to people like you who have actively contributed to this project -- thank you!</div>
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<div>Also extending my thanks to all of you who so nicely reacted, publicly or privately, to our updates about Phon 4!</div>
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<div>On Sep 2, 2026, at 8:43 PM, Barbara Davis <<a href="mailto:babillages@gmail.com" target="_blank">babillages@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Phon 4 is a major update, which involved over 2.5 years of intensive development, bringing new and improved functions across the application, along with a fully revised and modernized interface. Central to the PhonBank project and its
integration within the larger TalkBank database is a brand new format that brings unprecedented interoperability between Phon and CLAN. </div>
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<li><u>Transcript-based Session Editor</u>: Records are now viewed and edited in a single continuous transcript, similar to a CHAT transcript, instead of one record at a time. Specialized views dedicated to different functions dock around the transcript and
can be arranged into custom layouts.</li><li><u>AI assistant (Schwa)</u>: A built-in chat assistant that can answer questions from the Phon manual, inspect session data, and generate edit scripts. Schwa works with cloud model providers as well as local models via Ollama, and Phon can also act as an
MCP server to make its tools available to external AI clients.</li><li><u>Modernized interface</u>: A refreshed look with light and dark themes, selectable in Preferences, and native file and system dialogs on macOS and Windows.</li><li><u>TalkBank interoperability</u>: An updated session format aligned with the TalkBank CHAT format, improved CHAT import and export, and a Publish Project wizard for packaging a project as a TalkBank-ready archive.</li><li><u>Improved media and Praat workflows</u>: Redesigned TextGrid import and export wizards, and word and phone interval tiers for working with time-aligned transcription data.</li><li><u>Performance</u>: Faster loading and editing of large sessions and reduced memory use.</li></ul>
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<div class="gmail_quote">In parallel to all this exciting work, are currently in the process of updating existing PhonBank corpora to the latest format standards of TalkBank. We will continue to publish updated corpora through the fall semester. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">As always, none of this work would have been possible without the involvement of countless researchers and students from around the world, to whom we are immensely grateful. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">We also want to remind everyone about the importance of data sharing. Each contribution adds visibility to the researchers' own work. It also offers tremendous potential for additional investigations, further strengthening our field
of research as a whole. For more info about data sharing, please visit <a href="https://talkbank.org/0share/contrib.html" target="_blank">
https://talkbank.org/0share/contrib.html</a>. We have tools, knowledge and useful tricks to share toward corpus building and data sharing, and look forward to working with you! </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">With best regards, and wishes for a happy new semester to all! </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Yvan Rose & Gregory Hedlund, also on behalf of Brian MacWhinney</div>
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