Configuring Anchor#

You can configure many aspects of Anchor by clicking Preferences... in the Edit menu.

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Configuring general options#

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Here you can set options related to how MFA is used from Anchor (i.e., multiprocessing, CUDA, number of jobs), along with general interface options.

Configuring Anchor’s appearance#

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The default color theme for Anchor can be changed the default “MFA” to a “Praat-like” theme or a user-defined theme for various interface components.

Configuring keyboard shortcuts#

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Here you can see the default keyboard shortcuts for various UI actions and change them as necessary.

Configuring the spectrogram#

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Here you can specify facets of spectrogram generation related to dynamic range, number of time steps, maximum frequency, and window size.

Configuring pitch tracks#

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Here you can toggle pitch to show it overlaid on the spectrogram along with parameters for the pitch algorithm.

See also

Pitch is generated via Kaldi’s pitch algorithm, see compute-kaldi-pitch-feats.