A spectrogram is a time-varying spectral representation (forming an image) that shows how the spectral density of a signal varies with time.

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Programming language for sound manipulation

Having had little experience in PHP, I moved to C++ in-order to create a spectrogram, I wanted to create probably the simplest/easiest one for my first project, so easy infact I don't need ...
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cross spectrogram to compare similarity between two signals [closed]

I computed the spectrogram of two audio signals. How can i find the cross spectrogram from them.I want to find the pixels in the two spectrogram s which are similar.
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What is the theoretic difference in the ways to compute the spectrogram?

I have noticed that the spectrogram for a audio signal is often calculated in different ways when the result from the DFT is transformed into real numbers; some tend to compute $|k|$ or $|k|^2$ while ...
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Points of interest in a spectrogram

We have several audio tracks, all of which are different versions of the same track under one type of distortion: the speed of the track is increased by a constant factor K (hence frequences are ...
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Spectrogram Analysis

I have four .wav files and each contain bird chirps. Given an input .wav file, I need to find out which bird it is. I have some basic understanding of signal processing. I have used spectrogram to ...
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Convolving With half-Hanning

The goal is to get a 200ms decaying delay of an audio signal while preserving the sharpness of attacks to mimick human perception of sound. The paper I'm following convolves a 200ms half-Hanning ...
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Compressing A Range Of Decibel Values to One “Representative” Value

Don't have any formal dsp experience - sophomore in college. Working on constructing a 25 band bark spectrogram for psychoacoustic analysis of audio FFT data. To do this, I'm grouping all FFT ...
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Finding the frequencies given in a wav file

I have a wav file containing a series of chords, each containing 3 or 4 notes, played concurrently. I need to find the frequencies of each note in each chord, and I can use matlab to do any ...
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Vertical lines noise in spectrogram

I have started looking into DSP and made an implementation of short-time fourier transform, using kissFFT to perform the FFT. I then render a spectrogram. An example image that I have generated can ...
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are there any tools available that will output audio spectrum as raw data?

Is there an app or script that will output raw text data representing an arbitrary number of bands in the audio spectrum of an input file like a .wav or .mp3 to make the data equivalent of a ...
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why is the spectrogram from matlab different from audacity

Something related Here are the spectrogram plots: Matlab version: Audacity version: the darker parts towards the right of the figure show speech. Silence was added to the left of the figure in ...
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Please help me analyse spectrogram

I am working on noise reduction and I need to learn how to analyze spectrograms I mixed a pure speech file with violet noise in audacity and got the following spectrograms: Matlab version ...
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When should I use a frequency spectrum rather than a spectrogram representation?

It seems to me that the spectrogram representation of a finite signal gives you significantly more useful information than a frequency spectrum. As I understand it, the spectrogram breaks down the ...
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Deriving the frequency spectrum graph from the graph of a spectrogram and vice versa?

I have a signal's spectrogram and frequency spectrum (which, if i'm not mistaken, is its the signal's fourier transform) as given below: I understand that the spectrogram plots the frequency ...
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Reconstruction of Audio Signal from its Absolute Spectrogram

I have the absolute Spectrogram of an audio signals. I lost the phase data of the Spectogram because of various processing applied on the original spectrogram of the signal. I'm trying to reconstruct ...
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Using Spectrogram to check whether aliasing will occur

I was wondering if the spectrogram can be used as a MATLAB tool to check whether or not aliasing will occur when the signal is downsampled from let's say, 44.1kHz to 8kHz? And if yes, how do I go ...
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Spectrogram for created signal

I'm trying to test the specgram function located in the signal package in octave but I'm a little confused at the variables in specgram. What I would like to do is be able to get the specgram data ...
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What is the best way to represent audio visually? (x-post from UX)

Original Question: http://ux.stackexchange.com/q/23040/16006 I've only taken some basic signal analysis courses, so I might be missing some things. Purely theoretical question: What methods exist ...
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How do I plot the spectrogram of a wav file?

I am dabbing a little bit into signal processing on MATLAB. And I have the following question that I would like to know the answer to. What has to be done : Plot the Spectrogram of an audio file. ...
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Improving spectrogram resolution in Python?

I'm using the specgram() function in matplotlib to generate spectrograms of speech wave files in Python, but the output is ...
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Creating a spectrogram

I've been trying to work out the logic for this task, and plan to use the KissFFT source package to perform the fast fourier transform. Please let me know if this looks about right: Allocate an FFT ...
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What is the maximal frequency resolution for Matlab's STFT implementation spectrogram()?

Matlab's spectrogram() function calculates the STFT of a signal. It describes its NFFT argument as follows: ...
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Finding pitch from a wideband spectrogram

We can use the narrowband spectrogram for finding the pitch of an utterance. But is it possible to find the pitch using the wideband spectrogram? If so, how would that be done?