WaveSurfer
(28 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications.
Highlights
Multi-platform – Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and SGI IRIX
Flexible interface – handles multiple sounds
Common sound file formats – reads, and writes WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg/Vorbis, and NIST/Sphere
Transcription file formats – reads, and writes HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat. Support for encodings and Unicode.
Unlimited file size – playback and recording directly from/to disk
Sound analysis – e.g. spectrogram and pitch analysis
Customizable – users can create their own configurations. Localization support.
Extensible – new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture
Embeddable – WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications
Scriptable – hosts a built-in script interpreter
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/index.html (3327 clicks)
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