Introducing Phon 4.0

Sun Sep 6 02:06:17 UTC 2026

Hi Fellow PHON Users

It's so exciting to know the upgrade is ready, just as I have come back to
needing PHON. Thanks Yvan and team!

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.

Help appreciated!

On Sun, 6 Sept 2026 at 07:24, 'Lise Menn' via Info-CHILDES <
info-childes at googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Congratulations, Yvan!
> Wish I had enough hearing left to use it!
> Lise
>
> Lise Menn
> Professor Emerita, Linguistics
> Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Science
> University of Colorado, Boulder
>
> Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
> Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
>
> *From: *info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com> on
> behalf of Yvan Rose <yvan.rose at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 5:58 AM
> *To: *phon at googlegroups.com <phon at googlegroups.com>
> *Cc: *info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> *Subject: *Re: Introducing Phon 4.0
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> Cheers, Babs!
>
> 20 years of progress, lots of innovation, all this thanks to people like
> you who have actively contributed to this project -- thank you!
>
> Also extending my thanks to all of you who so nicely reacted, publicly or
> privately, to our updates about Phon 4!
>
> All the best,
> Yvan
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2026, at 8:43 PM, Barbara Davis <babillages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yvan
> Congratulations on Phon4!! It is lovely to see Phon still thriving.
>
> Best regards,
> Babs
>
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM Yvan Rose <yvan.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> After several months of intensive testing and debugging, we are now happy
> to introduce the first official version of Phon 4!
>
> 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.
>
> The most important changes from Phon 3 are:
>
>    - *Transcript-based Session Editor*: 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.
>    - *AI assistant (Schwa)*: 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.
>    - *Modernized interface*: A refreshed look with light and dark themes,
>    selectable in Preferences, and native file and system dialogs on macOS and
>    Windows.
>    - *TalkBank interoperability*: 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.
>    - *Improved media and Praat workflows*: Redesigned TextGrid import and
>    export wizards, and word and phone interval tiers for working with
>    time-aligned transcription data.
>    - *Performance*: Faster loading and editing of large sessions and
>    reduced memory use.
>
>
> You can download Phon 4 at https://www.phon.ca.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 https://talkbank.org/0share/contrib.html. We have tools, knowledge
> and useful tricks to share toward corpus building and data sharing, and
> look forward to working with you!
>
>
> With best regards, and wishes for a happy new semester to all!
> Yvan Rose & Gregory Hedlund, also on behalf of Brian MacWhinney
>
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