This release contains:

* Several bug-fixes

* Updated demos

* Updated documentation

How to play a sound file using Snack and Python:

s = Sound() s.read('ex1.wav') s.play()

The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language. Snack adds commands to play and record audio and supports in-memory sound objects, file based audio, and streaming audio, with background audio processing. It handles fileformats such as WAV, MP3, AU, AIFF, and

NIST/Sphere. Snack is extensible, new commands and sound file formats can be added using the Snack C-library. Snack also does sound visualization, e.g. waveforms and spectrograms. The visualization canvas item types update in real-time and can output postscript.

Snack works with Tcl8.0 - Tcl8.4 and Python 1.5.2-1.6 Platforms: Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, Macintosh, and Windows95/98/NT/2K.

Source and Binaries can be downloaded from http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

Regards, Kare Sjolander kare@speech.kth.se