Sound Analysis

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear AnimalTalk People (and others),
  If you connect now to http://www.talkbank.org/animal/sa.html you will
find  that you can download the programs and manual for the Sound Analysis
program  contributed by Ofer Tchernichovski at Rockefeller University and
Partha Mitra at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. This program only
run on Windows.
  Sound Analysis does excellent Wiener entropy analyses and includes strong
facilities to measure the similarity of two sounds.  It also contains
several other analysis routines.  The sample files are songs from the zebra
finch and Ofer will eventually contribute a large database of zebra finch
songs too.  However, I am guessing that this program could have uses across
many types of communication for various analyses.  For example, what about
applications to human infant babbling?
  Thanks to Ofer for this contribution to the AnimalTalk segment of
TalkBank.

--Brian MacWhinney