This page shows people who have contributed to Audacity.
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History

Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg in the fall of 1999 at Carnegie Mellon University. It was released as open-source software at SourceForge.net in May 2000.

Since 2021, development is lead by Muse Group.

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Team Members

  • K. Soze, developer
  • Gonzalo Guzmán, support
  • Martin Keary, product owner and design
  • Paul Licameli, developer
  • Pietro Marcello, developer
  • Vitaly Sverchinsky, developer
  • Dmitry Vedenko, developer
  • Leo Wattenberg, documentation and support
  • Jessica Williamson, designer

Ex-Musers

  • Anton Gerasimov, developer
  • Jouni Helminen, designer
  • Pavel Penikov, QA

Emeritus: distinguished Audacity team members, not currently active

  • Gale Andrews, In memoriam
  • Richard Ash, developer
  • Christian Brochec, documentation and support, French
  • Matt Brubeck, developer
  • Arturo “Buanzo” Busleiman, system administration, security, support
  • Michael Chinen, developer
  • James Crook, developer
  • Roger Dannenberg, co-founder and developer
  • Steve Daulton
  • Al Dimond, developer
  • Benjamin Drung, developer
  • Joshua Haberman, developer
  • Ruslan Ijbulatov, developer
  • Vaughan Johnson, developer
  • Greg Kozikowski, documentation and support
  • Leland Lucius, developer
  • Dominic Mazzoni, co-founder and developer
  • Markus Meyer, developer
  • Monty Montgomery, developer
  • Shane Mueller, developer
  • Tony Oetzmann, documentation and support
  • Alexandre Prokoudine, documentation and support
  • Peter Sampson, QA tester, documentation and support
  • Martyn Shaw, developer
  • Bill Wharrie, documentation and support

Contributors

  • Lynn Allan, developer
  • David Avery, developer
  • David Bailes, accessibility advisor
  • William Bland, developer
  • Alex S.Brown, developer
  • Jeremy R.Brown, developer
  • Chris Cannam, developer
  • Subhradeep Chakraborty, developer
  • Craig DeForest, developer
  • Edgar Franke (Edgar-RFT), developer
  • Mitch Golden, developer
  • Brian Gunlogson, developer
  • Andrew Hallendorff, developer
  • Robert Hänggi, developer
  • Daniel Horgan, developer
  • David Hostetler, developer
  • Steve Jolly, developer
  • Steven Jones, developer
  • Myungchul Keum, developer
  • Arun Kishore, developer
  • Paul Livesey, developer
  • Harvey Lubin, graphic artist
  • Greg Mekkes, developer
  • Abe Milde, developer
  • Paul Nasca, developer
  • Clayton Otey, developer
  • Mark Phillips, developer
  • André Pinto, developer
  • Jean-Claude Risset, composer
  • RuRo, developer
  • Augustus Saunders, developer
  • Benjamin Schwartz, developer
  • Cliff Scott, tester
  • David R. Sky, Nyquist plug-ins – Obituary
  • Rob Sykes, developer
  • Mike Underwood, developer
  • Philip Van Baren, developer
  • Salvo Ventura, developer
  • Darrell Walisser, developer
  • Jun Wan, developer
  • Tom Woodhams, developer
  • Mark Young, developer
  • Wing Yu, developer

Website and Graphics

  • Shinta Carolinasari, web developer
  • Bayu Rizaldhan Rayes, graphics

Translators

  • Mikhail Balabanov (bg)
  • Francesc Busquets (ca)
  • Pau Crespo (ca)
  • Aleš Tošovský (cs)
  • Henrik Clausen (da)
  • Christoph Kobe (de)
  • Daniel Winzen (de)
  • Karsten Zeller (de)
  • Antonio Paniagua (es)
  • Ezequiel Plaza (es)
  • Waldo Ramirez (es)
  • Xabier Aramendi (eu)
  • Petri Vuorio (fi)
  • Lionel Allorge (fr)
  • Olivier Ballestraz (fr)
  • Christian Brochec (fr)
  • Fabrice Silva (fr)
  • Micil Sheain Mhicil (ga)
  • Xosé Antón Vicente Rodríguez (gl)
  • Márton Balázs – documan magyarító oldala (hu)
  • Jozsef Herczeg (hu)
  • Aldo Boccacci (it)
  • Ohkubo Kohei (ja)
  • Šarūnas Gliebus (lt)
  • Ilija Iliev (mk)
  • Kevin Brubeck Unhammer (nb)
  • Tino Meinen (nl)
  • Grzegorz Pruchniakowski (Gootector) (pl)
  • Tomasz Bandura (pl)
  • Marek Mularczyk (pl)
  • Sebastian Pacholski (pl)
  • Cleber Tavano (pt_BR)
  • Victor Westmann (pt_BR)
  • Manuel Ciosici (ro)
  • Yuri Ilyin (ru)
  • Alexandre Prokoudine (ru)
  • Joe Yeti (sk)
  • Rok Hecl (sl)
  • Martin Srebotnjak (sl)
  • Lars Carlsson (sv)
  • Kaya Zeren (tr)
  • Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  • XiaoXi Liu (zh_CN)
  • Chido (zh_TW)
  • 潘明忠 – Audacity 中文化 (zh_TW)

Libraries

Audacity is based on code from the following projects:

Thanks

There are many other people and organizations we would like to thank. Many of these have contributed code, patches, feedback, money, time, or other things to the project. Others simply produce tools that made this whole thing possible.

  • Dave Beydler
  • Brian Cameron
  • Jason Cohen
  • Dave Fancella
  • Steve Harris
  • Daniel James
  • Daniil Kolpakov
  • Robert Leidle
  • Logan Lewis
  • David Luff
  • Jason Pepas
  • Jonathan Ryshpan
  • Michael Schwendt
  • Patrick Shirkey
  • Tuomas Suutari
  • Mark Tomlinson
  • David Topper
  • Rudy Trubitt
  • StreetIQ.com
  • UmixIt Technologies, LLC
  • Verilogix, Inc.
  • (Let us know if we’re forgetting anyone!)