What's new on March 11, 2010.

	News: New ultra portable recorder: Yamaha POCKETRAK W24 digital recorder with a stereo mic-in. This looks like the first truly ultra portable high-quality audio recorder. You can use it for impromptu recordings.
	Download: Akustyk 1.8 for Windows Akustyk 1.8 for Mac OS X (source code only) Akustyk 1.8 for Linux (source code only)
	New tutorials: How to improve microphone placement in field interviews How to deal with unwanted noise in the field
	New video tutorials: Using Quick LPC to test LPC analysis settings Recording audio with Praat Guided tour through the output of formant analysis (the Info window) Setting up Audacity for recording speech
	New Reviews: Review of Beyerdynamic Opus 55 Mk II headset microphone Review of Sennheiser HMD25-1 microphone headset RadioShack 33-3013 microphone review
	Sites to visit: Metro Sound and Lighting is an excellent retailer in Saint Paul, MN. These guys have lots of euqipment in stock, and are very knowledgable and helpful. Highly recommended! Digital Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide from Vermont Folklife Center's Andy Kolovos is a great resource that will save you lots of time browsing the Internet for information on field audio matters Recording Phone Calls is an excellent guide prepared by transom.org Oade Brothers Audio is a great place to buy equipment and get advice

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Akustyk for Praat

Akustyk is a comprehensive vowel analysis software package. It installs as an add-on to the popular software, Praat (http://praat.org), developed at the University of Amsterdam. It has been designed to facilitate accurate and sophisticated acoustic analysis of large data sets. Akustyk's functionality ranges from preparing audio files for analysis to producing high quality plots and graphs. Akustyk is of particular value to researchers working in the field of sociophonetics, though it may be successfully used in other fields as well. Akustyk has also been implemented in student labs, where it is used as a graduate student research and teaching tool.

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