Overview
This page provides a general overview of the purpose and functionality of TAAT.
Introduction
TAAT was conceived as a software toolkit aimed at researchers working with digitised tape archives, with the purpose of assisting such researchers - be they musicologists, historians, librarians, archivists, or composers - to easily and rapidly sort, connect, and categorise large collections of audio material from tape sources.
The toolkit helps to determine:
- where relationships exist between segments of audio files;
- what the differences are between two related audio recordings.
In particular, TAAT was designed to address the shortcomings of existing tools, which fail to deal effectively with issues the process of tape archive digitisation invariably introduces, such as pitch fluctuations, tone saturation and frequency filtering.