These are added to the collection of scales. The acoustic scales, which are applied to the segment, can include volume , pitch , time from beginning of file, length of segment in seconds, speech rate and ratio of sound to silence. These can be displayed graphically for any segment or selection and can be written into the database as numerical scales. There is no limit to the number of phrases that can be built into a search. The output from a search can also be directed to a Rating Scale or be used to create a new document.
Searches can specify which documents and speakers to include.
Searches of words and word groups can be filtered so that only segments with specific codes are included. The user can move the focus of a search from the segment to the speech unit. Word group searches can be focused within syntactical units. Searches that output to reports take the form of documents which include the text of the segments that meet the criteria and links to the media file. The lexical structure of the output such as word counts and frequencies with comparisons to those segments which don't meet the search criteria are also available Lexical Analysis Can be applied to all words and word groups in a project.