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Announcing Updates to Drift4: Integrated Gentle, Image Size Options, and More! (Post)

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Editor’s note: This blog post provides a series of updates about Drift4, a pitch-tracking software available on the SpokenWeb website.You can read more about how Drift4 works in this previous blog post, and you can access Drift4 through the SpokenWeb Research Tools page here. Major updates have arrived to Drift4 since its release in 2022 […]

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Benches Aren’t for Sleeping: On Accessibility and Archiving (Post)

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Abstract Launched in 2005 and rebooted in 2022, the Fred Wah Digital Archive is a digital web project that intends to act as a living archive of the work of  Fred Wah, including a new interview with the author. As a consequence of the poet’s interest in the sonic and phonetic aspects of language, the […]

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A New & Improved Drift4 for Performative Speech Analysis (Post)

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Introduction Drift is a highly accurate pitch-tracker prototyped in 2016 by Robert Ochshorn and Max Hawkins. Its further development has been supported by a NEH Digital Humanities Advancement grant and now by SpokenWeb. At UC Davis, undergraduate research assistants Sarah Yuniar and Hannan Waliullah, working with Marit MacArthur and Lee M. Miller, have beautifully improved […]

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The Bad Batch: Open Refine as a Batch Editing Method in SWALLOW (Post)

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Figure 1. Open Refine GUI. Explaining the Case and Software Tool In 2019, SpokenWeb SFU Project Manager Cole Mash (SFU) and SpokenWeb Systems Task Force member Tomasz Neugebauer (Concordia) began work on editing SWALLOW entries. SWALLOW is an open-source metadata ingestion system developed by the SpokenWeb team to describe and manage the project’s object of […]

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Gender, Affective Labour, and Community-Building Through Literary Audio Recordings (Post)

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Introduction This article emerged from the “feminist close listening” methodology we devised together during a collaborative listening session in Montreal, December, 2017. We began the practice of listening to recordings together, in real time, as a way of attuning ourselves to the related inquiries that our archives of interest shared. For Karis, this archive is […]

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