WaveSurfer

WaveSurfer is a cool audio manipulation software that makes it super easy to research and analyze sound and speech. It comes with handy visualization tools, lets you perform different transformations, and you can even add more features through plug-ins!

Supported Audio Formats

The WaveSurfer app can open and create a bunch of audio file formats, like WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, OGG, Vorbis, NIST, and Sphere. And guess what? There are no size limits! So feel free to open any file from your drive or start recording right away.

Choosing Your Project Type

When you kick off a new project in WaveSurfer, you'll need to pick one of the available configurations. Your options include Demonstration, HTK transcription, IPA transcription, Spectrogram analysis, Speech analysis, TIMIT phones-words transcription—yeah there’s a lot! Waveform options also let you choose standard or n-waveforms.

User-Friendly Controls

Once you've made your selection, WaveSurfer will pop up the right windows and panels for you. Now you're all set to start recording or open up the audio file you want to dive into. The controls are pretty intuitive whether you're playing back sound or working with the graphic representations.

Audio Transformations

You can do some neat things within WaveSurfer like changing the sample rate and output channels of your audio. You can amplify sound, add fade in/out effects, normalize recordings, sprinkle in echo effects, mix channels together—or even invert or silence parts of the audio.

Plug-Ins for Extra Functionality

A fun fact is that some functions in WaveSurfer rely on plug-ins that already come with the app. Plus, if you're looking to expand its capabilities even more—like working with video files—you can download new plug-ins here!

Conclusion

To wrap it up nicely—WaveSurfer gives you an awesome set of tools for playback, recording, analyzing sounds—and manipulating them too! You can review or capture audio content while applying various transformations and sound effects along the way!