Table 11

Annotators perceptions after working with Audacity and Hyfe’s browser-based app

AdvantagesDisadvantages
Audacity
  • Mistakes can be corrected retrospectively

  • Work on a label while listening to the audio

  • Requires manual download of labels and manual upload to a database

  • All actions require using the mouse

  • Continuous listening to the same participant makes it easier to get distracted

  • Selecting one specific label is laborious

Hyfe’s browser-app
  • Very intuitive

  • All labels automatically uploaded at backend

  • All actions can be done with the keyboard

  • Can mix a patient’s segments, stimulating focus

  • Label selection is easy

  • Mistake correction requires interaction with an administrator

  • Segmentation makes it easier to have partial sounds at the end