ANNOUNCE: The Snack Sound Toolkit v2.2.1

[Kare Sjolander]

This release adds improved support for Mac OS X and several
enhancements and bug fixes.

Changes:
11/19/02 (bug fix) Fixed problem with SnackAudioPlayed() on Windows,
return value could roll over after lengthy sound output. (Wilkason)

1/16/03 (enhancement) Canvas items now work on Mac OS X, also added
Makefile hardcoded for Tcl8.4.1.

1/24/03 (new feature) Support for standard configure/make build systom
on Mac OS X.

1/24/03 (new feature) Core Audio support for Mac OS X.

2/06/03 (new feature) Improved build support for Mac OS X. (Steffen)

2/10/03 (new feature) New sample encoding format Lin24Packed.

2/11/03 (bug fix) Fixed problem with the ESPS pitch tracker.

2/10/03 (new feature) Snack libraries compiled for Tcl/Tk 8.4 now work
with earlier stub versions as well.

The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting
language.
Currently it supports Tcl/Tk, Python and Ruby.
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, Python 1.5.2-2.3, and Ruby 1.6.5.
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