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strauss: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis - Published in JOSS (2025)

https://github.com/james-trayford/strauss

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Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis

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  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: james-trayford
  • License: apache-2.0
  • Language: Python
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README.md

STRAUSS

**Sonification *Tools and **Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis*

Sonification Tools & Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis

Sonification and STRAUSS

"Sonification" is the process of conveying data via the medium of sound. Sonification can be used to make scientific data more accessible to those with visual impairments, enhance visualisations and movies, and even convey information more efficiently than by visual means. The STRAUSS python package is intended to make sonification simple for both scientific and outreach applications.

Getting Started

Access the full documentation here and read more about the associated Audio Universe project here.

STRAUSS is PyPI hosted package and pip can be used for the default installation:

pip install 'strauss[default]'

For a standard install (without text-to speech support).

For development purposes, you can instead use:

pip install -e .

where the -e option allows a local install, such that you can modify and run the source code on the fly without needing to reinstall each time.

If you would like access to all the resources and explore the code directly, make a copy of the STRAUSS repository via SSH,

git clone git@github.com:james-trayford/strauss.git strauss

or HTTPS if you don't have SSH keys set up,

git clone https://github.com/james-trayford/strauss.git strauss

and install STRAUSS from your local repository using pip

cd strauss

pip install .

We recommend using a conda environment to avoid package conflicts. Type

conda env create -f environment.yml

before pip install -e .

and activate the environment with

conda activate strauss

Installing with text-to-speech support

STRAUSS can also be installed with text-to-speech (TTS) support, allowing audio captioning of sonifications and future accessibility features, via the TTS module. Due to the specific module requirements of this module, install can sometimes lead to incompatibilities with other modules and be slower, so is packaged with STRAUSS as an optional extra. If you'd like to use these features, its easy to directly from PyPI:

pip install 'strauss[AI-TTS]'

or if you're working from a local copy of the repository, as above, use

pip install -e ".[AI-TTS]"

with or without the -e option depending on whether you want to edit the STRAUSS code or not, as above.

Note: The coqui AI TTS is currently supported for python versions <= 3.12 - If you are running python==3.13, you can downgrade to use this extra.

Citing STRAUSS

Please cite STRAUSS using the JOSS paper:

@article{Trayford2025, doi = {10.21105/joss.07875}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07875}, year = {2025}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {10}, number = {109}, pages = {7875}, author = {James W. Trayford and Samantha Youles and Chris Harrison and Rose Shepherd and Nicolas Bonne}, title = {strauss: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

If you have found STRAUSS useful, please star the repository on GitHub!

Acknowledgments

STRAUSS is developed and provided free and open source, supported by a UKRI Early Stage Research and Development Award, grant code ST/X004651/1.

The STRAUSS code has also benefited from funding via an Royal Astronomical Society Education & Outreach grant award, providing hardware and software for sound development and spatialisation testing.

Owner

  • Name: James Trayford
  • Login: james-trayford
  • Kind: user
  • Location: Intitute of Cosmology & Gravitation, Portsmouth

Dr. James Trayford

JOSS Publication

strauss: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis
Published
May 06, 2025
DOI
Volume 10, Issue 109, Page 7875
Authors
James W. Trayford ORCID
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
Samantha Youles ORCID
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
Chris Harrison ORCID
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, UK
Rose Shepherd ORCID
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, UK
Nicolas Bonne ORCID
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
Editor
Juanjo Bazán ORCID
Tags
sonification data inspection astronomy
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Sonification Tools and Resources for Astronomers Using Sound Synthesis

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