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title: "WaveSurfer"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T12:18:48.265085+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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WaveSurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic phonetics. It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and transcriptions. It can read and write a number of transcription file formats used in industrial speech research including TIMIT.
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WaveSurfer is free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence.
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== Features ==
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Wavesurfer provides basic audio editing operations, such as excision, copying, pasting, zero-crossing adjustment, and effects such as fading, normalization, echo, inversion, reversal, replacement with silence, and DC-removal, but, in view of its scientific orientation, does not offer effects of interest to musicians such as flange.
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== Development ==
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Wavesurfer is written in Tcl/Tk using the Snack audio library. It therefore runs on most platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and IRIX. It is scriptable and supports plugins.
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== See also ==
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List of music software
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Wavesurfer home page
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Wavesurfer at sourceforge |