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Ho'omana Nathan H.

International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Program Coordinator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/7/2017

"Powerful, free audio suite that's virtually essential for acoustic analysis of linguistic data"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Audacity?

Audacity is free and user-friendly, but also allows for outstandingly fine-grained tuning if you know what you're doing. We find this software invaluable for recording or re-encoding audio data for linguistic analysis. We're also able to manipulate audio files (e.g. by changing pitch) to present for perceptual studies. Audacity's algorithms really do an excellent job of manipulating only the selected variable and maintaining the integrity and crispness of the audio file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Audacity?

Audacity has an older-looking interface that can make the large amount of options overwhelming sometimes, but it's free, so I've never really found this to be worth complaining about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Audacity:

If you want to use Audacity, it's worth investing time in the documentation and in the science behind audio recording and analysis in order to best make use of the powerful tools Audacity offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Audacity solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Audacity in the OSU linguistics lab to record audio through a USB pre-amplifier (the Focusrite Scarlett Solo), and to re-sample or re-encode audio data in other formats which many not be readable (or may be too big) for analysis software like Praat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.