Bug#292572: ITP: praat -- program for speech analysis and synthesis
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : praat
Version : 4.3
Upstream Author : Paul Boersma and David Weenink
* URL : http://www.praat.org/
* License : GPL (with one exception, see below)
Description : program for speech analysis and synthesis
According to its authors, praat is "doing phonetics by computer". Through
its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are
available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction.
Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and
intensity are also available. Other features are segmentation, labelling
using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics. Praat is
configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has
provisions for communicating with other programs.
A preliminary version of the package is available at the apt-getable
repository
http://people.debian.org/~rafael/praat/
If there are no objections, I will upload the package in one week or so.
Although the program is released under the GPL, there is a exception for one
file. I think I will need to deceide if the term are compatible or not with
the DFSG. Its license reads:
/* ipaSerifRegularPS.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1993 Summer Institute of Linguistics
* Copyright (C) 1994-2003 Paul Boersma
*
* This is partly free software; you can redistribute BUT NOT MODIFY
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
* your option) any later version.
*
***************************************************************************
*
* THIS LICENSE IS MORE RESTRICTED THAN THE LICENSE FOR THE OTHER CODE
* DISTRIBUTED WITH THE PRAAT PROGRAM. THIS IS BECAUSE THE FONT IS
* COPYRIGHTED BY THE SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS, AND THE PRAAT PROGRAM
* DISTRIBUTES IT AS A SUBLICENSEE. THE SUBLICENSE DOES ALLOW REDISTRIBUTION
* OF THE INCLUDED FONT IN THE C FORMAT NEEDED FOR PRAAT,
* BUT THE SUBLICENSE DOES NOT ALLOW MODIFICATION OF THE INCLUDED FONT,
* NOR REVERSE ENGINEERING OF THE FONT ITSELF ON THE BASIS OF THIS C CODE.
*
* (Reverse engineering is pointless anyway; the font itself can be
* downloaded for free from www.sil.org or www.praat.org)
*
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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