Avisoft Services

Distribution, support and maintenance of the Avisoft-SASLab software.

Generation of high-quality spectrograms and executing of advanced sound analyisis of your data.

Development of custom-made software for applications in digital signal processing, sound processing or similiar branches.

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Avisoft History

The first project was a DOS-based spectrogram software, called Avisoft-SONAGRAPH. It was a combination of hardware and software, because soundcards were not available at that time. There were both desktop and notebook computer versions. The latter one used an external analog-to-digital converter connected to the printer port. That DOS-software was replaced by the new Windows-based Avisoft-SASLab Pro software in 1994.

Another early project was the development (both hardware and software) of a multi-channel sound-activated bird song acquisition system, based on HiFi video recorders, which were controlled optically (IR remote control) by a PC. Thanks to advances in computer technology, that functionality is now replaced by the new Avisoft-RECORDER.

Some activities were focused on data banks for managing ornithological observation data (Ornibase). A GIS-like (Geographic Information System) front-end, called Avisoft-ATLAS allowed the user to input geographical coordinates by mouse-clicking certain points on a digitized map (both raster and vector format).

Hardware development activities include a solid-state ultrasound recorder (time-expansion bat-detector with realtime acoustic monitoring). These devices are manufactured by Laar Bioacoustics.

One of the most recent innovations by Avisoft is the UltraSoundGate system.

See the CV of Raimund Specht.