WaveSurfer

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WaveSurfer
Stable release
1.8.8p6 / October 15, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-10-15)
BSD-like
Websitewww.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/
archived

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 including TIMIT.

WaveSurfer is

permissive free software licence.[1]

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

Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and IRIX
. It is scriptable and supports plugins.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Licence text for Wavesurfer".

External links