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Re: Reviewing long recordings

Subject: Re: Reviewing long recordings
From: "chrishails50" chrishails50
Date: Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:12 pm ((PDT))
Thanks for this intriguing link Eric, I will definitely investigate this.

C

--- In  Eric Fassbender <> wrote:
>
> Hey Chris, 
> 
> I thought of somehow using the noise capture/footprint function to detect 
> similar sounds and gave that a go in Soundbooth. However, it is aimed at low 
> end white noise kind of sounds so didn't pick up the call of a barking owl 
> that I marked as 'noise'. The function still tried to remove the ambient 
> noise (wind in trees, sound of creek) rather than the owl call. After this 
> unsuccessful attempt I thought - surely there must be a software out there 
> that can do what you want (highlight a sound and then search for similar 
> instances). So I typed 'sound editing find similar sounds how to' into Google 
> and this is one of the search results:
> 
> http://www.comparisonics.com/CSeditor.html
> 
> It seems to be able to find similar sounds in a recording, however, I am on a 
> Mac so cannot test it. If you have a Windows machine, maybe give it a try.
> 
> One last point on the Spectrograms. You'll likely find that once you know 
> what the spectrogram of the owl call looks like (i.e. you need to identify 
> one instance) your eyes will be able to easily pick up the pattern in the 
> spectrogram.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear how you're going and what works and what doesn't 
> after a few sessions, so maybe let us know :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eric
> 
> 








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