WaveSurfer
{{Short description|Audio editing software}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = WaveSurfer
| logo = Wslogo.gif
| screenshot = WaveSurfer.png
| released =
| latest release version = 1.8.8p6
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2019|10|15}}
| repo = https://sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer/
| operating system = Cross-platform
| size = 4.0 MB
| genre = Digital audio editor
| license = BSD-like
| website = {{URL|http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080722195312/http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ archived]
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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 free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence.{{cite web | url = http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/bsd.txt | title = Licence text for Wavesurfer }}
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 Tcl/Tk using the Snack audio library. It therefore runs on most platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and IRIX. It is scriptable and supports plugins.
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ Wavesurfer home page]
- [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer/ Wavesurfer at sourceforge]
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Category:Linguistic research software
Category:Free software programmed in Tcl
Category:Audio editing software for Linux
Category:Software that uses Tk (software)
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