Charles, it would be a valuable resource if you could make notes about your
evaluations of those programs, and post a summary here. One can spend many
hours evaluating programs that start out promising but turn out to have a flaw
that means they aren't suitable, so it's good if one can have advance warning
about such things.
I can confirm that Acousmographe is free. The author (or authors?) is French,
but there is an English version. I wasn't able to find an English manual though.
Triton is one that I didn't come across when I was evaluating programs. I just
had a quick look at the manual (from
http://cetus.ucsd.edu/technologies_Software.html), but I see no mention at all
of adding annotations. The manual is for v1.64 while the software is up to
v1.80, so perhaps the annotation capability was added after that version. It
seems to be highly suited to dealing with extremely long recordings, so I'm
really interested to hear how you go with this one.
One thing I think one needs to be very cautious of when evaluating programs
like these if you intend to commit a lot of time to analysing data with them,
is future support. I suspect a lot of programs like these start their life as a
postgrad student project, and many end their life there. They may do 99% of
what you want very well, but when the times comes to contact the author for
advice or to do something about a missing feature or a serious bug, they cannot
be found and no one at that institution is interested in or capable of helping.
Some have support forums, others have nothing. Some support forums are very
active, others have had no postings for years.
It's well worth torture testing a program before committing to it, just in case
it can't do something you need.
Take care to keep a backup of the installation files, as you may find when you
go to install on a new computer that they're no longer available. It might also
be worth keeping an archive of previous versions of installation files, just in
case a new release introduces new bugs.
Peter Shute
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> dear all thanks for all the valuable input you gave me.
> so far this is the list of program that have been proposed:
>
> Sonic Visualizer, free, multiplatform
> Acousmograph, free?, multiplatform
> Praat, free, multiplatform
> Raven, multiplatform
> Audition, mac/win (free only for win, old version but still
> great) AmadeusPro, multiplatform XBAT, for matlab Triton /
> Triton Logger, for matlab Audacity, free, multi platform
>
> I have to work on soundscapes and thus I need to label
> multiple, sometime overlapping, frequency-time regions of the
> spectrogram.
> I'll test all these for their labeling/annotation capability
> and I'll post my results.
>
> thanks again
> Gianni
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> 2014-09-29 19:10 GMT+02:00 Charles S. Henry <>:
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>
> Hi Marco,
> I agree, Praat is an incredibly versatile program and
> should allow Gianni to do just what he was hoping to do. Plus
> I love its sonograms.
> And it's available on PCs and Macs.
> Charlie
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> On 9/29/2014 12:18 PM, Marco Gamba wrote:
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>
> Hello Gianni,
> You should try Praat (praat.org <http://praat.org>).
> Praat textgrids are exactly doing what you are
> looking for and they can be stored (and manipulated) as text
> files separately.
> However, you should probably avoid working on
> very long files.
> If I can help with more, please do not hesitate to ask.
> Cheers
> Marco
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> 'Amadeus Pro' should do the same thing (on Mac)
> Regards
> Martin
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> ...out from MKO^V^Pad...
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> Am 28.09.2014 um 19:21 schrieb "Gianni
> Pavan" < <>>:
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>
> dear all, I'm searching for a
> software to make labels or annotations, e.g. to mark and
> label specific points in time or specific freqeuncy-time
> areas on spectrograms of wav files.
> the main requirement, other
> that being easy to use, is to maintain the data separate from
> the wav file, without touching the wav file.
> any suggestion ?
> Gianni
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