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A Listening Practice with Marit MacArthur (UC Davis) — Sep 17, 2025 (Events)

Montreal, QC - Concordia University - AMPLab for Literary Sound Studies, LB 671-05, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8

As part of Jason Camlot’s SSHRC IG “Literary Listening” project, Dr. Marit MacArthur will join us from UC Davis, California, to offer a guided listening practice, focusing on the potential of the digital pitch tracking and alignment tools DRIFT and Gentle (available via the SpokenWeb Digital Toolkits page). Participants are asked to upload one digital […]

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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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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)

Virtual Participation - RSVP Link Information Below

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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