Sound Analysis and Synthesis with R

Dr. Jérôme Sueur is an associate professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France. He has developed several research projects all dealing with acoustics, animal behaviour and ecology. His work is internationally acknowledged and he is an expert in animal communication and biodiversity assessment through acoustic techniques. He is considered a leader of the recent emergence of ecoacoustics, a new scientific discipline that combines acoustics and ecology at a large spatio-temporal scale. He developed the R package 'seewave' which is used in more than 110 countries by researchers in bioacoustics and ecoacoustics, and also in speech analysis, telemetry, medical sciences, geology, and spatial engineering.

• Introduction.- What Is Sound?.- What Is R?.- Playing with Sound.- Display of the Wave.- Edition.- Amplitude Parametrization.- Time-Amplitude Parametrization.- Introduction to Frequency Analysis: the Fourier Transformation.- Frequency, Quefrency, and Phase in Practice.- Spectrographic Visualization.- Mel-Frequency Cepstral and Linear Predictive Coefficients.- Frequency and Energy Tracking.- Frequency Filters.- Other Modifications.- Indices for Ecoacoustics.- Comparison and Automatic Detection.- Synthesis.

“This is a stand-alone, foundational work synthesising a large amount of research on bioacoustics, signal processing and signal synthesis techniques. It provides a powerful tool which could be broadly used not only by bioacousticians but also by researchers in related fields, for instance, human acoustics, music perception, etc. … Any scholar performing work on acoustics, particularly students and diverse researchers interested in exploring animal communication by sound and vibration, will enjoy this book. … it is highly recommended for library collections.” (Fernando Montealegre-Z, Bioacoustics, August 15, 2019)“Over the 17 chapters the author describes basic audio analyses that can be conducted with R. The underlying concepts are explained using both mathematical equations and R code. … the book shows how to use a wide range of audio-specific R package like tuneR or warbleR. I can only wish that this book had been released earlier. It would have saved me a lot of pain conducting audio analyses.” (Eryk Walczak, Eryk Walczak - My Blog about Data, walczak.org, November 03, 2018)