Upcoming FAVE 1.2

[Josef Fruehwald]

Hello Everyone,

In anticipation of the upcoming workshop on automation in sociophonetics workshop coming up at NWAV next week, I'm ramping up for a version 1.2 release of most of the stuff we've done on the dev branch. This release includes some updates to how you interact with FAVE, and the formatting of the output, but doesn't change the nature of how the formant estimation is done, nor the formant estimates you get back. There will be a lot more data dumped into output, including

• The CMU transcriptions of the preceding word, the target word, and the following word, as well as CMU transcriptions of the preceding and following segments.
• Information about whether the vowel is at the left edge, right edge, or word internal.

There is also improved Windows support thanks to Scott Seyfarth.

The documentation on the wiki will be gradually updated, but it might take a bit, because I'm only one man. If you're not comfortable upgrading until the new documentation is complete, version 1.1.3 will still be available under releases. Meanwhile, you can browse what we've done in the NEWS file on the dev branch.

Thank you and goodbye.

[Josef Fruehwald]

Sorry, the dev branch is here: https://github.com/JoFrhwld/FAVE/tree/dev