Speech Filing System Release 4/Windows
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Version 4.26 - June 2001
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Major enhancements:
	- CNV2SFS now supports NIST format files
	- ESWIN gives annotations their correct lengths
	- NOISANAL can now produce a normalised energy trace
	- Setup program prevents unselection of "Main Program Files"

Version 4.25 - April 2001
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Major enhancements:
	- New Setup/Install program
	- Bug fixes in ESWIN Copy and Link
	- Better cursor control in ESWIN
	- Better ways to estimate overall duration of a file in ESWIN
	- Start-at and end-at options on ESWIN
	- Prevent save to same file error in SFSWIN
	- Easier to import stereo files into SFSWIN
	- Replay of Lx waveforms in ESWIN and SFSWIN
	- Option to invert waveforms on record in SFSWIN
	- Improved handling of dialogs in SFSWIN
	- Memory for Load/Save directories in SFSWIN
	- New, simpler signal import program CNV2SFS
	- Voice activated recording in RECORD
	- New/Improved Synthesis programs: PHOSYNTH, MBRSYNTH
	- Display item switches on COCH, FXAC, FXCEP for teaching
	- Bug fix on loading/displaying word lattices with WDLOAD
	- New program LDABBOT to load phonetic output from AbbotDemo
	- Updated FAQ and Tutorial
	- ESWIN manual page added

Version 4.20 - January 2001
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Major enhancements:
	- new Eswin program, Windows replacement for Es
	- new Esection program, Windows replacement for Espect and Esform
	- cut and paste of items across files in sfswin
	- many more SFS programs included in menus
	- dialogs support selections and output files
	- more reliable audio acquisition and replay
	- Configuration file SFSWIN.CFG documented
	- bug fixes in resamp, level, hqtx

Version 4.11 - Sept 2000
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This version has two bug fixes only:
	- cursor colurs have been changed to make them more visible
	  on 256 colour display.
	- nasty memory fault on Windows 2000 has been dealt with.

Version 4.10 - July 2000
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Major enhancements:
	- new PHOSYNTH program for formant synthesis by rule
	- new HQTX program for better Lx to Tx conversion
	- bug fix in FMANAL restores missing peaks
	- -f switch to FXANAL means better for female voices
	- SFSWIN now prompts before recording over existing items
	- SFSWIN now imports word lattices from recogniser
	- ESFORM now displays formant frequencies as text
	- SPANED can now concatenate SP, LX and AN, so can be used
	  with REPROS for a kind of concatenative synthesizer
	- Es bug fixes, including the restoration of the file
	  title on the display

SFS 4/Windows is now distributed as a self extracting executable.  
Simply double-click on sfs-4??.exe to unpack and install.

Mark Huckvale

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/

SFS@phon.ucl.ac.uk