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# How-to guides

This section contains step-by-step guides
showing you how to accomplish specific tasks with `vak`,
like training a model with your own spectrograms
or your own format for annotating vocalizations.

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1

howto_prep_annotate
howto_user_annot
howto_user_spect
```