Audacity

Submitted by languist on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 13:35
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An audio editor that runs on all major platforms. It is oriented more toward music than phonetics and has only limited analysis tools. However, it can do noise reduction and has some useful editing tools, including the ability to modify individual samples and to change the amplitude envelope.

Version

 1.2.6

Developer

 Open Source Community

Supported
forum or wiki

Supported Operating Systems

 Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista

Unicode Support
Minimally

Suitable tasks
  • SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Surveying and assessing the sociolinguistic situation
  • Collect word lists using IPA transcription and/or audio recording
  • ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
  • Record examples of local music as electronic audio
  • LINGUISTICS
  • Record and play back utterances as electronic audio
  • Collect, transcribe and translate audiorecordings of natural texts (and other texts/utterances)
  • COMMON: Common Tasks and Foundational Technologies/Utilities
  • Manipulate data (e.g. SFM or XML)

Interface Language
Arabic, English, French, Indonesian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, More

License
GPL (GNU Public License)

Download Page
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Website
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

User Group
Audacity Forum

Screenshots
Audacity screenshot

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Usage on Linux for recording live music/voice

Submitted by mocambique on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 22:13.
5

Audacity works very well on Linux (Ubuntu) especially when recording live spoken voice or singing.

It can be useful for monitoring the sound patterns to detect various vocal inflections (ie does the speaker get louder/softer when starting certain words/phrases.