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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 has also been used as the base for automated measurements. It can read and write a number of transcription file formats used in industrial speech research including TIMIT. WaveSurfer is free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence
Article summary
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 has also been used as the base for automated measurements. It can read and write a number of transcription file formats used in industrial speech research including TIMIT. WaveSurfer is free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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