FreeBSD

tool: Wavesurfer

Purpose: 

A software tool for the manipulation of audio recordings. Wavesurfer provides basic audio editing function, such as excision, copying, pasting, zero-crossing adjustment, and effects such as fading, normalization, echo, inversion, reversal, replacement with silence, and DC-removal.

Features: 
  • Audio format support, including WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg/Vorbis, and NIST/Sphere
  • Read/write support for HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat transcription formats
  • Direct-to-disk playback/recording enabling use of audio recordings larger than available memory
  • Plug-in architecture
  • built-in script interpreter
A&H use case 1 description: 
The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) project used Wavesurfer to edit and transcribe 200 speech events recorded at the University of Warwick or the University of Reading that were made between October 1998 and March 2005.
Creator: 
Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), KTH
Publisher: 
Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), KTH
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Sound editing
Data capture: 
Sound recording
Specifications: 
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
MS WAV
Ogg Vorbis
HTK
MLF
TIMIT
ESPS/Waves+
Phondat
Citation Style Format (CSL)
Sound Designer (SD)
NIST/Sphere
Sun Audio (AU)
lifecycleStage: 
creation
analysis
Practice-led research: 
Audio mixing
Alternate tool(s): 

audacity

Tags: 
audio
playback
manipulation
Software/programming languages used: 
WaveSurfer
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
Mac OS X
FreeBSD
HP-UX
IRIX
Licence: 
BSD variant
By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 11:27

tool: ImageMagik

Purpose: 

A software suite for displaying, converting and editing still images stored in a raster image format. Image manipulation may be performed via the command line, API libraries, or through a simply graphical user interface.

Features: 

• Software control through API and command line
• Format conversion
• image transformation
• transparency support
• Format identification
• Text to image conversion

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Thomas Gray Archive has used Image Magik to edit pictures and maps.
Creator: 
ImageMagick Studio LLC
Publisher: 
ImageMagick Studio LLC
Practice-led research: 
Image manipulation
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Image enhancement
Image restoration
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Specifications: 
Perl
Python
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Tcl/TK
Ada
C
Clipper Header (CH)
COM+
C++
Lisp
Tags: 
Image enhancement
Image manipulation
Image restoration and rectification
manipulation
batch
editing
moving image
Raster image
script
Alternate tool(s): 

GIMP, Adobe Photoshop

Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
Mac OS X
FreeBSD
Amiga OS 4.0
MorphOS
Licence: 
ImageMagick
Software/programming languages used: 
ImageMagick
By garethknight at Thu, 21/01/2010 - 12:55