The Snack Sound Toolkit is a cross-platform library written by Kåre Sjölander of the Swedish Royal Technical University (KTH) with bindings for the scripting languages

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, and

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. It provides audio I/O, audio analysis and processing functions, such as spectral analysis, pitch tracking, and filtering, and related graphics functions such as display of the sound pressure waveform and

spectrogram A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time. When applied to an audio signal, spectrograms are sometimes called sonographs, voiceprints, or voicegrams. When the data are represen ...

. It is available on Microsoft Windows,

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, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and IRIX.

Usage

The Snack Sound Toolkit is used in a number of

linguistic research Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

tools, including WaveSurfer,

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, and SndBite, as well as in other applications, such as the snackAmp

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music player. It was used in academic research at the Delft University of Technology. The

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collection ''Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems'' includes a research essay utilizing Snack for human-computer speech interaction. The toolkit is included as a component of

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and

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External links

Snack home page

References

Linguistic research software Audio libraries