biosonic

A python package for bioacoustics

This package is in active development. If you want to work with it, be aware that it is prone to bugs and the functionality might change. If you would like to collaborate, please reach out to us! We would love for this to become a comprehensive package for bioacoustics and a collaborative project.

Description

biosonic is a python package for bioacoustics analysis. It's goal is to provide a solution for common workflows from normalization of files and basic acoustic feature extraction to extracting features commonly used in ML pipelines as well as fundamental frequency tracking with a user friendy function based structure and parametrization.

Getting Started

Dependencies

BioSonic is written to be lightweight and only relies on numpy, scipy, and pandas for it's basic functionality. If you want plotting, this can be specified during pip installing:

pip install biosonic[plots]

For full functionality, the current dependencies are:

• numpy
• pandas
• scipy
• matplotlib
• praat-textgrids

Python 3.10 and above are supported.

Installing

For full functionality, including plotting and praat-textgrid support run

pip install biosonic[all]

Executing

Demonstrations of different functionalities can be found in the documentation.

Authors

• Lena Gies (a12113965@unet.univie.ac.at)
• Tecumseh Fitch (tecumseh.fitch@unet.univie.ac.at)
• Yannick Jadoul (yannick.jadoul@uniroma1.it)

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