Talk2Nature

A FIVE-MINUTE FORMAT CHECK

Can this little sound
make the handoff?

A tiny, invented sound. Two notes. One trip from Talk2Nature into Audacity. Help us check the file format before anyone asks it to carry a scientific claim.

Build the test package See the four steps ↓

No account · no upload · no animal recording · no model

Two marked moments in an eight-second invented sound A quiet line, one synthetic sound between one and two seconds, another between four and five seconds, then quiet. This is a file-format test, not an animal recording. 01–02 s 04–05 s 0 1 2 4 5 8 seconds
Two invented tones. Zero wildlife.

THE REPRODUCIBLE PART

Follow the sound.
Check what survives.

The app makes the package on your device. Audacity checks whether the common WAV and timed labels open together. Your result stays yours unless you choose to report it.

  1. 01

    Make the invented recording

    Open Listen and choose Try an example. You’ll see an eight-second waveform with tones at one to two seconds and four to five seconds.

    Open Listen →
  2. 02

    Mark both sounds

    Add two events at 1–2 s and 4–5 s. Set each to other sound; keep context unknown and source not observed. For the second note, try רגע 🌿, then a new line and second line.

  3. 03

    Carry it into Audacity

    Expand Continue in Audacity, download the package and unzip it. Open recording.wav, then use File → Import → Labels to import labels.txt.

    See the format and privacy notes ↗
  4. 04

    Compare, including the uncertainty

    Check the two label spans, the Unicode note and the visible \n escape. The full newline stays in annotations.json. Compare the source checksums in annotations.json and export-report.json. No playback is needed.

YOUR EXPECTED RESULT

A clean handoff
keeps the unknowns.

01

Two time spans

One from 1.000000 to 2.000000 seconds; one from 4.000000 to 5.000000 seconds.

02

One unchanged sound

The WAV remains eight seconds, mono, 16 kHz. Its checksum agrees with the source record.

03

Honest labels

Both are declared synthetic “other sound” events. Animal identity and context remain unknown.

04

Safe text, intact notes

Unicode appears in the label. A newline is escaped there so it cannot split a row, and stays a newline in the JSON record.

A FAILURE IS USEFUL DATA

Did something shift,
vanish or look odd?

Share the app and OS versions, the steps you tried, and expected versus actual behavior. Use the invented example only. The issue form is public; never attach private recordings, participant details, credentials, personal file paths or sensitive wildlife locations.

Tell us what happened

No automatic upload. Review the form before you choose to submit it.

Open the public report form

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