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Step 2: Setting the segmentation threshold
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Before processing a batch you want to make sure that the sound is properly segmented to syllables. This is important even if you are not creating a syllable table because SAP2 decides whether to accept or reject the file based on its syllable content (namely, on segmentation).

Double clicking one of the wave file invoke a 'fake trial' namely, all calculations are done without saving anything:
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Move the yellow slider up or down and then double click the sound file again to update the segmentation. If the quality of segmentation is really important to you (e.g., to generate DVD maps for analysis) then see details at the segmentation part of the user manual. Otherwise, a gross segmentation might do (you can always create a syllable table from the unsegmented raw features table.
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