ANNOUNCE: The Snack Sound Toolkit v2.1.5

[Kare Sjolander]

This release contains some new functionality, bug fixes, and new/updated
demos.

Change log

11/9/01 (bug fix) Fixed problem in the configure script which caused
Snack to be built without the TCL_81_API flag, which in turn caused
problems for the sound data command.

1/9/02 (enhancement) The generator filter now works correctly on
multi-channel sounds through channel duplication.

1/10/02 (new feature) New demo, generator2.tcl.

1/9/02 (enhancement) Support for the stereo-only devices.

1/21/02 (enhancement) Configure script now support HP-UX 11.x.

2/4/02 (new feature) Support for variable bit rate MP3 files with XING
headers. (Wilkason)

2/4/02 (bug fix) Fixed crash on HP-UX machines without audio server.
(Allaert)

The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting
language.
Currently it supports Tcl/Tk and Python.
Snack adds high level sound objects with flexible storage
management and streaming support. Sound objects have methods to play,
record, and process sound. Snack handles fileformats such as WAV, MP3,
AU, AIFF, and CSL. There are optional packages for NIST/Sphere and
Ogg/Vorbis file formats.
Snack is extensible, new commands, filters, and sound file formats can
be added using the Snack C-library. An easy to build example extension
is contained in the source distribution.
Snack also does sound visualization, e.g. waveforms and spectrograms.
The visualization objects update in real-time and can output postscript.

Snack works with Tcl8.0 - Tcl8.4 and Python 1.5.2-2.1
Platforms: Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, Macintosh, and
Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.

Source and binaries can be downloaded from
http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

Regards,
Kare Sjolander
ka...@speech.kth.se