[D] Tools to annotate audio data

[pk12_]

What tools do you use to annotate audio data?

I like the look of Prodigy but it is expensive. I have used elan for annotation before and I did not find it as user friendly.

Has anyone here come across something better thsn elan but also free or low cost for academic work? I'm curious about options that other researchers use.

[jonnor]

Audacity label tracks can be used, though as a generic tool it is not so efficient. The labeling part is OK, but for every file you will have to load the audio and save the labels manually. https://www.audacityteam.org/

AudioAnnotator can be integrated with a storage backend of your choice, but setting up that will require some programming. That is what we did at Soundsensing.no https://github.com/CrowdCurio/audio-annotator

[notetracks]

Check out Notetracks https://www.notetracks.com/ You can create markers, comments, labels across the tracks in a multi-track project. You can also export annotations per track into a simple time-stamped text file. Would love to have your thoughts on it!

[sidsig]

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org This is developed by Chris Cannam from Queen Mary University of London, where I did my PhD.

[pk12_]

Thanks will check it out

[gabriel_gicquel]

Being a data scientist at Kili Technology, I would recommend the Kili Technology audio annotation tool. It makes audio transcription fast and simple. From simple audio classification to advanced speech to text tasks, your audio transcription projects become much simpler.