Luscinia

Luscinia is a cool tool that makes it easy for anyone to archive and analyze field sound recordings, especially when it comes to animal sounds. It's open-source, which means anyone can use it and even contribute to making it better!

Features of Luscinia

This software comes with a bunch of handy features. First off, it has an interface that connects to a database. This means you can store all your recordings in one place. Plus, there are some awesome algorithms for measuring spectrograms and comparing sounds.

Flexible Spectrogram Views

Luscinia gives you a flexible spectrogram view of the sounds you analyze. You can tweak how the spectrograms look—like changing fonts or tick-marks—so they’re just right for publication.

Echo Removal Function

One neat feature is the ‘echo-removal’ function that cleans up your spectrograms from field recordings, making them look way better. You can also play back sounds at different speeds and check out an advanced pitch view that shows fundamental frequencies, perfect for signals with harmonics.

Measuring Acoustic Features

Luscinia isn’t just about looks; it measures 15 acoustic features at every point in the sound signal! All this data gets stored in the database so you don't have to measure the same sounds over and over again for different analyses. It uses a semi-automated method that's super quick for clean recordings but still gets accurate results even if there's background noise.

Planned Comparisons and Data Analysis

You can set up planned comparisons between different sets of recordings too! For example, if you're running tutor/tutee experiments or analyzing large datasets from whole populations, Luscinia has got your back.

If you're interested in checking out Luscinia more closely, download it here!