BickGraphing: Web-Based Application for Visual Inspection of Audio Recordings

BickGraphing is a browser-based research tool that enables visual inspection of acoustic recordings. The tool was built in support of visualising crop-feeding pest sounds in support of the Insect Eavesdropper project; however, it is widely applicable to all audio visualisations in research. It allows multiple uploads of large .wav files, computes waveforms and spectrograms locally, and supports interactive exploration of audio events in time and frequency. The application is implemented as a SvelteKit and TypeScript web app with a client-side signal-processing pipeline using WebAssembly-compiled FFmpeg and custom FFT utilities. The software is released on an open Git repository (https://github.com/bicklabuw/BickGraphing) and archived under a standard MIT License and can be reused for rapid visual quality checks of .wav recordings in insect bioacoustics and related fields. BickGraphing has the potential to be a local, easy-to-use coding-free visualisation platform for audio data in research.