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13 <h1 id="header"><span>Sonic Annotator</span></h1>
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14
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15 <h2 id="firstpara">A batch tool for audio feature extraction</h2>
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16
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17 <p>Sonic Annotator is a batch tool for feature extraction and
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18 annotation of audio files using <a href="../index.html">Vamp
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19 plugins</a>.</p>
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20
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21 <p>Sonic Annotator can use any installed Vamp plugin to process
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22 a wide range of audio file types, loading audio data either from
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23 the local filesystem or from http or ftp URLs on the Internet.
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24 It can then write the results in RDF or comma-separated text
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25 formats.</p>
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26
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27 <img style="float:right;clear:right;padding-left:1em;padding-top:0em" src="../images/semantic-web-and-friends-webscale.png" alt="Freehand sketch depicting Sonic Annotator's place in a semantic web world">
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28
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29 <p>Sonic Annotator was originally developed in 2009 at Queen
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30 Mary, University of London as part of the <a
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31 href="http://omras2.org/">OMRAS2 project</a>, to facilitate
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32 feature data publication on the Semantic Web. It has since been
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33 used in a number of audio annotation projects and to power
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34 online audio feature retrieval APIs.</p>
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35
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36 <p>Sonic Annotator is Free Software published under the GNU
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37 General Public License.</p>
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38
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39 <ul><li><a href="http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-annotator/files">Download the current version of Sonic Annotator</a> — binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows, or source code;</li>
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40 <li>Read our <a href="http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-annotator/wiki">quick tutorial</a> about how to use Sonic Annotator;</li>
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41 <li>Read an <a href="runner.pdf">early document</a> describing more about the purpose and design of Sonic Annotator.</li>
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42 </ul>
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43
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44 <p><small><i>Citations:</i> If you are using Sonic Annotator in research work for publication, please cite (<a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/351746/1/tools.pdf">pdf</a> | <a href="runner.bib.txt">bib</a>) Chris Cannam, Michael O. Jewell, Christophe Rhodes, Mark Sandler, and Mark d'Inverno, <i>Linked Data and You: Bringing music research software into the Semantic Web</i>, Journal of New Music Research, volume 39, no. 4, pp. 313-325, 2010.</p>
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49 <td align=center><a href="http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/"><img src="../images/qm-logo.png" width="224" height="95" alt="Queen Mary logo" border=0/></a></td>
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50 <td>Developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.</td>
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51 <td align=right>Partially funded by the EPSRC through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1.</td>
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52 <td align=center><a href="http://www.omras2.org/"><img src="../images/omras2-logo.png" width="265" height="46" alt="OMRAS2 logo" border=0/></a></td>
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