Existing Tools for Sound Analysis
Many programs, both free and paid, already exist to analyze sound data, with more coming out all the time. We have collated an expanding list of programs for users to explore from a single access point. If you know of any we may have missed, please let us know!
Scroll through the applications or use the filter to search by software type, free or paid, or primary capabilities - Data exploration: general-purpose, bioacoustics software for listening, editing, and producing spectrograms; Soundscape or Sound Clip metrics and parameters (SPL, spectral analysis, etc); Sound Detection (AI, deep learning, event extraction, etc); Sound Classification (unsupervised or supervised clustering); Manual organization, review, and annotation; or Acoustic localization
Number of applications found:
94
Ocean Soundscape Atlas (MERIDIAN)
Free
Web GUI
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters
OpenSoundscape
Free
Python
Sound Detection, Sound Classification, Acoustic localization
PAMGuard
Free
Desktop GUI
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Classification, Sound Detection, Acoustic localization
PAMpal
Free
Desktop GUI
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters
Parselmouth
Free
Python
Manual organization review and annotation
Perch
Free
Python
Sound Detection
Praat
Free
Python
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Manual organization review and annotation
Pumilio, pumilioR
Free
Web GUI, R
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Manual organization review and annotation
Raven Lite
Free
Desktop GUI
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Manual organization review and annotation
Raven Pro
Paid
Desktop GUI
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Manual organization review and annotation, Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Detection, Acoustic localization
Reaper
Free
Desktop GUI
Data exploration (listening & visualizing)
Robots4Whales - LFDCS
Free
Web GUI
Sound Detection
This list has been published at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525
To cite this effort, please use:
Jarriel, S., Looby, A., Larsen, K., Munger, J., & Parsons, M. (2024). Compilation of existing underwater PAM repositories, libraries, and applications for sound processing [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525