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I'm trying to write a C program that can get the PSD of an recorded audio file, I'm using for the fftw3 library. I wrote a program that calculate the PSD so far only for sinus function, but the result is correct, my problem is that I have some trouble to use the windowing method on my data.

Let's say that the audio file has following properties :

fs = 44100;
length = 10sec;

So I got 441000samples, and I want to use windows, doesn't matter which one, with the size of 512, 25% overlapping, and shift my windows for the data. How could I know which value of the result is representing which frequency?

In Matlab it was easy here what I've done for example : 

  [x,fs] = audioread('fileName.wav');
  [xPSD,f] = pwelch(x,hanning(8192),4096,8192*4 ,fs);

Thanks for any help or explanation!

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The $k$-th FFT bin will contain the complex amplitude for frequency $\frac{k}{512} \times 44100$.

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  • $\begingroup$ so if I get a 1028 windows the bin that I get a everytime k/1028 * fs ? $\endgroup$ – Engine Jul 26 '14 at 11:49
  • $\begingroup$ Yes. The denominator is the window size. $\endgroup$ – pichenettes Jul 26 '14 at 13:23
  • $\begingroup$ for 5104 samples and a windows size of 1025 I'll use 5 times the windows for how can I order the result the frequency axis ?? $\endgroup$ – Engine Jul 26 '14 at 13:39
  • $\begingroup$ The k-th FFT bin will correspond to frequency k/1025 x 44100 $\endgroup$ – pichenettes Jul 26 '14 at 15:31
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    $\begingroup$ pwelch vector sums the magnitudes of the results of all the multiple FFTs. Then you only have a single result vector to plot. $\endgroup$ – hotpaw2 Jul 26 '14 at 20:15

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