Managing Templates

What is a Template?

A template is a good example of an acoustic signal of interest (e.g., a species-specific call).

This article only applies once you've created a template. If you have not yet done so, please reference the Create a Pattern Matching Template or Use the Public Template Library pages.

How to View your Templates

Go to the project menu and click Audio analyses, then Pattern Matching. You can see your templates in the Project Templates tab and view the Public Template Library by clicking the Public Templates tab. 

You will see the templates listed. Click the play icon to play the template. 

From this view, you can open the template in the visualizer by clicking on the Visualizer icon. 

You can choose to make your templates public (adding them to the Public Template Library) by clicking the toggle to 'ON' (outlined in red in the screenshot below).

Making your templates public allows everyone to use them with a CC0 license.

If you have public templates that you have saved to your project, you will see them in this list as well, alongside the 'linked' marker (outlined in the yellow in the screenshot below). You'll also be able to see the user who added that template and the source project it came from (hover over to see the full name).

You can download each template clip by clicking the download icon on the right side of the page (see below in red).

If you want to download all project templates at once, you can click the 'Export all templates' button (in red in screenshot below).

You will be prompted to input an email address to send the results, which will be comprised of a WAV file of each template as well as a CSV containing information about the templates (see example below).