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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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Voyant 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Voyant. It provides a suite of text analysis tools that will work with most texts you can upload or find on the web. These tools are combined in skins. For documentation see Documentation for Voyant 2.0
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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder. Basic features, as listed on their website, include: Record live audio. Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
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CheckText is a free, web-based text analysis tool. Users can paste in text, upload it from their files, or import content from a web page. For each text, CheckText generates statistics such as word count, syllable count or number of complex words, provides a reading ease and level breakdown, and graphs the most frequent words. The tool also offers a uniqueness check aimed at detecting plagiarism, and generates a PDF report containing the full text with the statistical and readability data.
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This tool provides all words directly before and after a user-specified word, based on the desired context of words, lines or sentences. The results can be sorted alphabetically, by frequency, or by Z-score (an indication of how far and in what direction that item deviates from its distribution's mean, expressed in units of its distribution's standard deviation). HTML and plain text versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
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This tool compares two documents by comparing the words in each according to user specifications. HTML and XML versions are also available in the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org
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eXist-db is an open source database management system that stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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