ANNOUNCE: The Snack Sound Toolkit v2.1.6

[Kare Sjolander]

This release contains support for professional quality audio with
96kHz sampling rate and playback of normalized >16bit sample encodings.
Also, a new 'fade' filter was added for linear/logarithmic/exponential
fade-in/fade-out. The release also contains bug fixes and updated demos.

Change log

2/22/02 (enhancement) Support for 96kHz sample rate on Windows/Linux.

2/25/02 (enhancement) Playback support for normalized float, [1.0,
-1.0], sounds.

2/27/02 (bug fix) Fixed problem with the 'filter' command and the -end
option.

2/28/02 (new feature) New filter type: fade, which implements
linear/logarithmic/exponential fade-in/-out.

3/6/02 (change) Removed automatic zero-padding of ESPS files, the
start_time field can now be accessed using "sndName configure
-start_time" instead.

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