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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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Teaching and Studying SpokenWeb Audio: User-Friendly Digital Tools for Slow and Distant Listening — Mar 21, 2023 (Events)

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This workshop with Dr. Marit MacArthur and Augusta Funk (UC Davis) will offer a brief introduction to two user-friendly slow and distant listening tools. Drift helps users visualize and quantify sound patterns in recorded speech, while Voxit helps users quantitatively analyzing sound patterns in larger numbers of recordings. Both tools can support and augment traditional close reading and close listening practices. We will invite you to share projects you hope to develop, for the classroom and/or for scholarly work.

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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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Demo and Feedback Session on Drift and Gentle with Marit MacArthur (UC Davis) — Nov 20, 2020 (Events)

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The session will (re)acquaint network members with the functions of both Drift and Gentle while demonstrating some updates to the user interface. Following the workshop, attendees will be invited to give feedback on the interface and discuss user-centric needs for the tools’ interface.

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