The Sound Editor Application enables you to edit and create recorded audio files. You can copy or cut words and phrases to create new audio clips. You can alter the volume of the recordings, and speed up or slow the play back. Additionally, you can add gloss(normally English) and native annotations to the recordings. The release supports Chinook and Cherokee keyboards, but we can easily accommodate other indigenous keyboards. ACORNS conforms to best practice criteria for working with linguistic data, in that it supports standard file formats through its export and import facilities. We hope you enjoy your ACORNS experience.
The Sound Editor enables you to add up to ten annotations to sound recordings. These annotations attach to specific portions of a sound recordign. ACORNS uses this capability for its Hear and Respond Lessons
We plan to continue our research towards implementing language independent speech recognition. The Sound Editor is the platform to which we will experiment with cutting edge techniques. ACORNS will utilize speech recognition by enabling students to speek in their native language to interact with language lessons
ACORNS software is open source and can be free for non-commercial use. The author, Dan Harvey, retains full copyright priviledges, but ACORNS is freely downloadable under the standard GNU General Public Open Source license agreement (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). By using or downloading the software, you agree to abide by its terms. Please contact harveyd@sou.edu if you have questions.