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Because of its slightly old-fashioned LessTif (a Motif clone [6][7]) interface, Praat is unlikely to win any design awards, but at least it is user friendly. The developers have not restricted their work to the Linux version; the software has been ported to FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows, SGI, Solaris, and HPUX. If you are interested in porting Praat to a system that is not currently supported, you just need the compiler and the LessTif library for the graphical interface.

Infos

  1. Roy T. Fielding's blog: http://roy.gbiv.com
  2. Apache http Server Project: http://httpd.apache.org
  3. OpenSolaris: http://www.opensolaris.org
  4. Gnome Outreach Program: http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y
  5. Praat: http://www.praat.org
  6. LessTif: http://www.lesstif.org
  7. Motif: http://www.opengroup.org/motif/

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