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Existing Tools for Sound Analysis

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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

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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

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