title: Software for the analysis of species-specific vocalizations.
abstract: Vocalization calls are behaviorally relevant complex sounds that typically contain several harmonics and show frequency and amplitude modulation. In this paper, an introduction to a software tool for the analysis of species-specific vocalizations is presented. The algorithm automatically or under user supervision detects time-varying amplitude and frequency parameters, which can serve for the statistical analysis of calls or as the substrate for the manipulation and synthesis of artificial calls. The described program and its results will be used in studying the representation of complex sounds in the central nervous system.
authors.affiliation: Charles University in Prague, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, Czech Republic. daniel.suta@lf3.cuni.cz
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Suta
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Komárek
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jilek
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Syka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D051381:Rats; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity; D014828:Vocalization, Animal