README for Aalto Aparat 2.0
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Aalto Aparat is a voice inverse filtering and parametrisation software for estimating and analysing the glottal flow. MATLAB-based Aparat is available
under an open-source licence and can be used in fundamental research of speech, fonetics and study of occupational voice. The programme provides a user-friendly
graphical interface from where the results can be easily saved and re-used in other projects.

The original Aparat was created and designed by Matti Airas [1]. The first version of the software was published in 2005 under the name TKK Aparat, referring to the
former Helsinki University of Technology (which was merged into Aalto University in 2010). See Aalto Aparat Manual for further details.

When citing Aalto Aparat, please use the following references:

General system description: 
Paavo Alku, Hilla Pohjalainen, Manu Airaksinen: “Aalto Aparat – A freely available tool for glottal inverse filtering and voice source parameterization”, Proc. Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Malaga, Spain, June 21-23, 2017. 

Detailed system description:
Hilla Pohjalainen, Manu Airaksinen, Matti Airas, Paavo Alku: ”Aalto Aparat Manual v2.0”, Technical report, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, 2015.


Installation
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(1) Download a suitable installation package according to your operating system. The current packages are AaltoAparatInstaller_Win64bit.exe (for Windows 7 and newer) and AaltoAparatInstaller_OS.app (tested on OS X Yosemite 10.10).

(2) Open the installation programme (.exe on Windows or .app for OS) and follow the instructions on the screen.