Cicada is an open source audio annotation tool that lets you annotate audio files in .wav format and also enables you to look into each audio spectrogram while annotating
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Cicada - simple GUI for audio annotation
Cicada is an audio annotation tool which can be used to annotate .wav files and save the annotation in
file format (currently). Eventually it will be made available as JSON, XML format as well (please watch for updates)
Setting up environment:
Python 3.5.6.
Following are requiremnts needed to run the tool.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Things to know before starting tool :
I have enabled the window resizing optionYou can make changes for the following parameters in the
.json file { "ButtonsParams": { "Height": 2, "Width": 20 }, "AnnotationsFile": { "ExistingAnnotationFile": "ExistingFile.csv", "NewAnnotationFile": "NewAnnotationFile.csv" } }
To start annotating:
Run this script:
After making sure you have.5.6 installed and all the required packages you are good to go.
$ python cicadaappv1_1.py
Note: I have given
and not for running the script because I assume you have virtual environment which has installed
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