WAVESURFER(1)

📦 version 1.8.8p5, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 WAVESURFER(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for wavesurfer, and no, you're not dreaming — this is a whole manual page and it's about to be a vibe. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

wavesurfer — soundfile editor 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wavesurfer [options] soundfile

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So Wavesurfer is literally a tool for sound visualization and manipulation — it's giving main character energy in the audio world, fr fr. ✨

You can absolutely run it as a stand-alone tool for a whole wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Like, the typical applications? Speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. That's the moment. 💅

The documentation for wavesurfer can be accessed online via www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer or through the wavesurfer help menu — iykyk, the help menu is right there being iconic. 🌈

💜 OPTIONS 💜

WaveSurfer recognizes the following command line switches 🫶

  • -play — starts playing the absolute second the sound is loaded. no waiting, no chill, we're going. 🔥
  • -config configuration — uses that configuration and does NOT query the user for one. WaveSurfer grabs the first matching configuration of the available ones. But if none of them match? A wavebar will be displayed instead. periodt. 💀
  • -master filename — when you're loading several sound files at once, this is how you say which sound's wavebar is gonna control the rest. For example:
wavesurfer.tcl -config Waveform -master ex1.wav ex1.wav ex2.wav

will make the first sound's wavebar control the second one as well. same energy, same wavebar. And you can get the exact same function by choosing View | Master Widget | ex1.wav. obsessed. ✨

  • -mlf filename — searches the specified HTK Master Label File (only for HTK format transcription panes, bestie, don't try it elsewhere). Several options can be specified, and they will apply to the corresponding transcription pane counting from the top. cute, organized, we love a system. 🎀

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This manual page was written by Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to the author, an absolute legend 🫶

okay that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from October 20, 2003, and it's the General Commands Manual vibe of WAVESURFER(1) — go make some beautiful sound visualizations, you've got this 💖✨🎀🦋

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