- WaveSurfer
Wavesurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of
acoustic phonetics . It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and transcriptions. It can read and write a number of transcription file formats used in industrial speech research includingTIMIT .WaveSurfer is
free software , distributed under apermissive free software licence . [ cite web | url = http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/bsd.txt | title = Licence text for Wavesurfer ]Features
Wavesurfer provides basic audio editing operations, such as excision, copying, pasting, zero-crossing adjustment, and effects such as fading, normalization, echo, inversion, reversal, replacement with silence, and DC-removal, but, in view of its scientific orientation, does not offer effects of interest to musicians such as flange.
Development
Wavesurfer is written in
Tcl/Tk using theSnack audio library . It therefore runs on most platforms, includingMicrosoft Windows ,Mac OS X ,Linux , Solaris,HP-UX ,FreeBSD , andIRIX . It is scriptable and supports plugins.References
External links
* [http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ Wavesurfer home page]
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