Because in journal Nothing specific method using Raven Pro 1.5

We can maybe do this with our Sonotrack software. I need to know a bit more about your research, because SONOTRACK is originally designed to analyze Ultrasonic Vocalizations of animals.

@Mr Ronald Bulthuis : the software Sonotrack it's Free ???, how me can be have this software ? maybe you can call me in message by researchgate ...

hmm. My research is bioacoustic for dolphin with range frequency 6kHz - 23kHz, and i am interest with your offer with software sonotrack .

Can you help me for get me this software ?, because i'm very needed in this month

thank you for attention 

Mr. Ronald Bulthuis 

Hi Muhammad, this is a very important step. To choose the wrong Digital Signal Processor can lead to miss valuable information. Cetacean acoustics have shown to need "high resolution" capabilities. There are components of the signal that are shown only through adjusting the time scale  to "see" variations in shorter time than we usually would expect from our own hearing capabilities. The aquatic media allows a finer use of the sound.

Your frequency range is not a problem at all for most DSPs since it is within human hearing. I wonder why you low cut at 6kHz since several dolphin species vocalize lower than this.

On my studies I produce uncompressed Wav files at 24 bits/96 kHz. Smaller quality that this, may miss information specially within Odontoceti members. The DSP I use is free, and I highly recommend it despite two main issues: 1) it runs on linux since it requires a very efficient operative system to do what it does; and 2) its development is in standby since 2013. Therefore you need an old PC for it, since it runs best on a 32 bit device without or prior the use of pulsaudio by most linux distros. I have used it over LinuxMint, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE but it should run fine over most distros as long as you do not have "pulseaudio" messing things up or you google for the specific tricks for the distro of your choice.

These are big drawbacks for some, but I have been in contact with its main developer since 2000, I am a programmer as well, and I can say this DSP is the finest I have ever seen overcoming its actual drawbacks. It is a great DSP, so fast and accurate. It puts the limits on the hardware side (ca. frequency range of your mic/recorder/soundboard rather than your DSP). I have a small ASUS Netbook with Baudline installed and running all the time on my sailboat and I am able to perform analysis in real time so easily that allows me to search for cetaceans and make navigation decisions quickly without having to wait for longtime demanding analysis. Considering cetacean's capability to move, I need the results in real time (e.g. highpass and/or lowpass filtering).

As a DSP for post-production, it is awesome providing such a speed during the analysis. Far better than pricey commercial software as SpectraLab, etc. The use of some keyboard combinations and the third mouse button for the harmonics, zoom, and frequency range changes is so welcomed in order to identify the primary signal, fundamental etc isolating your target. You can design your own layout with many variables the software is analyzing at the same time. Changes on your analysis settings (aka. transform size, time zooming, etc) takes seconds instead of minutes.

If you can bear with the two main described issues and that Baudline runs its charts with time and freq in 90º compared to other DSPs, you will find it is a very valuable piece of software. There is still a forum about it but it is not active enough to be useful.

Baudline, as it is, provides more than enough tools for our analysis with wildlife. Its development level is fine as analysis tools matters. However it does limit its use that fact that it does not provide support for PulseAudio despite it is included in most modern linux distros. There are some workarounds like to use this in ubuntu:

apt-get install osspd sudo ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/audio

or run it in opensuse with aoss ./baudline and pulseaudio disabled or removed entirely.

Baudline was created to analyze "mystery" signals, thus it does not come from the music or limited to human hearing world. It is not hardware demanding and so, it runs very smoothly even on old PCs with limited resources. Way different than "Sonic-visualizer"  that eats hard drive rendering it not useful IMO.

Here you can read about Baudline: www.baudline.com

Of course there are other alternatives as well (e.g. spectralab/raven/ocenaudio/sonic-visualizer/etc), and your frequency range is suitable for most DSPs, but in my opinion none is at the level of performance provided by Baudline.

I attached a publication describing the use of Baudline on false killer whales, with vocalizations within your target frequencies.

kind regards

gps

www.baudline.com

Article Study of Whistle Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Repertoire...

For @Mr Gian Paolo Sanino : Thank you very much for your suggestion and your information

Regards Lubis 

Hello Muhammad,

Raven Pro has been used in many dozens of studies of dolphin sounds. Below is a list of papers published just in the past year that have used Raven Pro for visualization and analysis of dolphin sounds.

Raven was developed in our lab at Cornell University (the Bioacoustics Research Program) specifically for analysis of animal sounds of all types. We offer an introductory Sound Analysis Workshop using Raven Pro several times per year (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=2716). Let me know if you have specific questions about using Raven for particular types of analyses.

--Russ

Gospić, N. R., & Picciulin, M. (2016). Changes in whistle structure of resident bottlenose dolphins in relation to underwater noise and boat traffic. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Amorim, T. O. S., Andriolo, A., Reis, S. S., & dos Santos, M. E. (2016). Vocalizations of Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis): Characterization, effect of physical environment and differences between populations. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, 1285–1293.

Guimarães de Andrade, L., Lima, I. M. S., Bittencourt, L., Bisi, T. L., Júnior, J. L. B., et al. (2015). High-frequency whistles of Guiana dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) in Guanabara Bay, southeastern Brazil. JASA Express Letters, 137, 15–19.

Herzing, D. L. (2015). Synchronous and Rhythmic Vocalizations and Correlated Underwater Behavior of Free-ranging Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) and Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Bahamas. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2, 14–29.

Kuczaj, S. A., Eskelinen, H. C., Jones, B. L., & Borger-turner, J. L. (2015). Gotta Go, Mom’s Calling: Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Mothers Use Individually Distinctive Acoustic Signals To Call Their Calves. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2, 88–95.

Gridley, T., Nastasi, A., Kriesell, H. J., & Elwen, S. H. (2015). The acoustic repertoire of wild common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Bioacoustics, 1–22.

Papale, E., Buffa, G., Filiciotto, F., Maccarrone, V., Mazzola, S., et al. (2015). Biphonic calls as signature whistles in a free-ranging bottlenose dolphin. Bioacoustics, 1–9.

Moron, J. R., Simões Amorim, T. O., Sucunza, F., de Castro, F. R., Rossi-Santos, M., et al. (2015). Spinner dolphin whistle in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Is there a geographic variation? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 2495–2498.

Hoffman, J. M., Ponnampalam, L. S., Araújo, C. C., Wang, J. Y., Kuit, S. H., et al. (2015). Comparison of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) whistles from two areas of western Peninsular Malaysia. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 2829–2835.

Mcintosh, B., Dudzinski, K. M., & Iii, E. M. (2015). Do Dolphins ’ Whistles Reveal their Age and Sex ? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2, 313–333.

Deconto, L. S., & Monteiro-Filho, E. L. A. (2015). Day and night sounds of the Guiana dolphin, Sotalia guianensis (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in southeastern Brazil. Acta Ethologica.

Luís, A. R., Couchinho, M. N., & dos Santos, M. E. (2015). Signature whistles in wild bottlenose dolphins: long-term stability and emission rates. Acta Ethologica.

Hi Russ Charif  Thank you very much for your suggestion and information to me .

i will be message you in research gate , about my problem using Raven Pro.

Regards 

Muhammad