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Computer software (or simply software) is the programs and procedures that enable a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). This includes application software such as a word processor, which enables a user to perform a task, and system software such as an operating system, which enables other software to run properly, by interfacing with hardware and with other software.
The term "software" was first used in this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. The concept of reading different sequences of instructions into the memory of a device to control computations was invented by Charles Babbage as part of his difference engine. The theory that is the basis for most modern software was first proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Hally, Mike (2005:79). Electronic brains/Stories from the dawn of the computer age. British Broadcasting Corporation and Granta Books, London. ISBN 1-86-207663-4.
Relationship to hardware
Computer software is so called in contrast to computer hardware, which encompasses the physical interconnections and devices required to store and execute (or run) the software. In computers, software is loaded into RAM and executed in the central processing unit. At the lowest level, software consists of a machine language specific to an individual processor. A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions (object code), which change the state of the computer from its preceding state. Software is an ordered sequence of instructions for changing the state of the computer hardware in a particular sequence. It is generally written in high-level programming languages that are easier and more efficient for humans to use (closer to natural language) than machine language. High-level languages are compiled or interpreted into machine language object code. Software may also be written in an assembly language, essentially, a mnemonic representation of a machine language using a natural language alphabet. Assembly language must be assembled into object code via an assembler. More on [ Computer software ]
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Development System for Auditory Modelling - Software that models the auditory system.
IPACLICK - A freely accessible phonetic type-and-clickwriter for IPA symbols in Unicode. Also includes superlinguistic names of consonants shown in phonetic script.
Meta Description: [ A tool for using IPA symbols in electronic documents. Instructions for use. Links to Unicode fonts and names of consonants ]
JavaSpeechLab - Speech analysis software written in Java 1.1.
JSyn - Java Audio Synthesis - Java API for real-time audio synthesis and computer music.
Meta Description: [ Java API for real-time audio synthesis and computer music. ]
Optimality Theory Software - OTSoft is meant to facilitate analysis in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) by using algorithms to do work that would have to be done (tediously, and perhaps unreliably) by hand. [by Bruce Hayes, UCLA]
Praat - A system for doing phonetics by computer - Free software for acoustic analysis. (by Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam)
Speech Filing System Home Page - Acoustic analysis software for Windows and Unix.
Speech Synthesis and Analysis Software - Listing of software for speech synthesis and analysis.
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Transcriber - Open (GNU) software for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech.
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