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
paPAM
Free
Matlab
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Manual organization review and annotation
paPAM
Free
Matlab
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Manual organization review and annotation
prinia-project
Free
Python, Matlab
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Classification
scikit-maad
Free
Python
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Detection, Sound Classification
scipy.signal
Free
Python
Data exploration (listening & visualizing)
scipy.signal.correlate
Free
Python
Acoustic localization
seewave
Free
R
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Detection, Manual organization review and annotation
soundecology
Free
R
Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters
vak
Free
Python
Manual organization review and annotation
warbleR
Free
R
Data exploration (listening & visualizing), Soundscape or sound clip metrics and parameters, Sound Detection, Manual organization review and annotation
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
