Re: OT: Programs You Wish Existed

i second pete's suggestions — both are excellent.
kit

On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Two ideas-
>
> A program to analyse the phonemic inventory of a language and
> extract the minimal set of distinctive features necessary to
> describe it.
>
> A program which takes a sound recording of spoken language,
> analyses the statistical distribution of acoustic features (e.g.
> using wavelets), and then generates plausible sets of sound changes.
>
> Pete