Who wrote Luscinia and who will write it?
Up until this point, Luscinia has been
written entirely by Rob Lachlan, while employed by Leiden
University, the Netherlands, and now Duke University, USA.
Luscinia is provided as free/open source software (see
license, below). This means two things in practice. One is
that it is provided free of charge. But more fundamentally,
it means that anyone can see the source, and change it, as
long as they make those changes available to everyone else
if they publicize their altered version of Luscinia (I
reserve the right to decide what goes into the version
distributed via the main website). I would love to have
collaborators on this project, and I have endeavoured to
make Luscinia as modular as possible, to facilitate the
addition of new functions to the package. Contact me at
rfl5 AT duke POINT edu, or check out the sourceforge page:
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In addition I welcome suggestions for new features of
Luscinia, or complaints about frustrations about how it
works now. I cannot guarantee that your comments will be
acted upon, but I will continue working to improve
Luscinia.
Future ideas for Luscinia (incomplete)
1) Incorporate a proper sound editor so
Luscinia can be a 'one-stop' shop for sound analysis
2) Add searching to the database views to properly take
advantage of database technology
3) Be able to view details of songs/individuals by clicking
on them (rather than opening a separate window)
4) Add measures taken directly from the waveform (more
accurate temporal measures/overall amplitude measures)
5) More work needs to be done on fundamental frequency
extraction and especially automatic signal detection
6) Add more sound comparison algorithms (cross-correlation,
linear-regression (SAP)).