
Transport Toolbar: This manages recording and playback. The most commonly used toolbars are described below. Interested readers could refer to this site for more details. Some of them are explored here by using the screenshots from Audacity’s official documentation website (Reference 4). Getting familiar with the Audacity environmentĪudacity offers various functionalities. Figure 1: The Audacity GUI environment Figure 2: Device Toolbar
#Audify spectrogram portable#
#Audify spectrogram full#
A three minute segment (vice the 20 seconds described above), gives good visual detail when in full screen mode, and allows you to review hours of audio very quickly (as compared to listening to the entire file) After you've become comfortable scrolling through spectrograms, recognizing interesting patterns (sounds), and playing them back, you should try widening the view on your screen See the image below for added examples of these settings.


Set Maximum Frequency to 1200, and click the box to "Show the spectrogram using grayscale colors" (Gray scale is easier to work with until you're more familiar with spectrograms)

In the spectrogram options set window size to "4096 - most narrowband" (later versions of Audacity allow for much higher settings, but greater than 8192 may be of little use for this purpose) In the Audacity Preferences window select "Spectrograms" to bring up the associated options The first time you use this tutorial you'll want to type "Ctrl-P" to open the Audacity Preferences window Start Audacity and maximize the application's window to fill your whole screen
#Audify spectrogram how to#
This assumes you are already familiar with how to open an audio file in Audacity. This is a quick tutorial and list of actions that will get the first time user up and running with Audacity, for the purpose of reviewing their audio files visually, with spectrograms.
