Audio, or in terms of signal processing, an audio signal is an analog or digital representation of sound, typically as an electrical voltage.
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Filtering Audio Signals in MATLAB
I'm trying to apply a filter to an audio signal in MATLAB and having some trouble processing it.
So far, I have a transfer function that describes a K-weighted filter, and I am able to create a bode ...
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Store the Spectrogram as Image in Python [on hold]
I want to store the STFT spectrogram of the audio as image. The code below shows a spectrogram to me as output, but when saved as image I get a different image.
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Make an envelope smoother but keep the sharp attack
I have a signal x for which I would like the envelope. I have taken the Hilbert transform (like in this question):
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Separate two sinusoids with very close frequencies (5 Hz difference) in a 44.1 Khz audio signal, with good time-domain resolution
Here is an audio signal which is a mix of (WAV file available here):
a 2000 Hz sinusoid, beginning at 1.00 sec, without fade-in/fade-out
a 2005 Hz sinusoid, beginning at 1.031 sec, with a slow fade-...
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MFCC Feature Reduction for Similarity Search
I'm working on creating song level features for music tracks.
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sound pressure level(SPL) from .wav of a heart sound
I am trying to get SPL from .wav of a heart sound but I dont know what kind of data I would need. in the other questions, some said calibration factor but I couldn't find it in the manual of the ...
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Modelling Psychoacoustic bass boost
I am motivated to try out psychoacoustic bass boost to my DIY speaker.
Now the most popular reference comes from Maxxaudio which has a commercial plugin but I was looking for something off the shelf ...
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Recommended resources for noise reduction
I know the question What Resources Are Recommended for an Introduction to Signal Processing (DSP)? and I have already read some general DSP books, such as Rick Lyons's "Understanding DSP," and also ...
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What are good sources to read about nonlinear transfer characteristics, particulary in audio devices?
I'm having a hard time trying to find books and articles about nonlinear transfer characteristics appearing in analog audio devices, e.g. tape, transformers, different kinds of tubes, etc.
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Frequency translation with FFT
I'm new to DSP and I would like to make an SDR receiver. For this I want to shift bins in the frequency domain in order to bring to 0Hz any portion of the base band spectrum (I know that there are ...
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Convert 96 Khz to 48 Khz audio: is this simple downsampling method ok?
I have an audio signal x sampled at 96 Khz. I have already lowpassed it with a cutoff somewhere between 20 Khz and 22 Khz, so there should be nothing left of ...
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creating custom waveforms equations for sounds
Someone recommended I ask this here... Found a nice example of some equations here: https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/25163/do-you-know-other-wave-equations
But unfortunately stackexchange ...
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Any way to reverse engineer professional audio algorithms or those in e.g. rack units?
Any way to reverse engineer professional audio algorithms or those in e.g. rack units?
In order to study how they're implemented?
Not suggesting to steal ideas, but as education.
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harmonic algorithm for extending compressed bandwidth of audio file
I just found this site and feel at home :)
I've been playin around with python and some compression ideas and was wondering if there's anything like what I am trying to figure out...
I've noticed ...
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What is the name of this very simple spectral subtraction technique?
Let $S = X + N$ be the sum of two audio signals $X$ and $N$ which are both stationnary (let's think X is a constant volume 440 Hz sinusoid and N is constant volume noise).
If the sum S has a -20 dB ...
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Generating values of EQ presets
I am using this project in Rpi - bmc0/dsp
It allows to set various effects and DSP setting to the entire audio stream of the device.
I wanted to get some common preset values like Pop, Dance, Rock, ...
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Basic Acoustic Tracking with Sensor Fusion for Automatic Gain Control
I'm trying to apply automatic gain control to an audio source emanating from two speakers by measuring the loudness of the signal in the presence of noise at multiple sensors. The sensors can move, ...
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How can I calculate what a recording would sound like if it was played through my speakers and mic?
I am trying to isolate the sound of someone speaking while music plays back in a noisy environment.
I have multiple speakers and a microphone in my system. I am able to
play back just music and ...
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What does it take to design a 4th order band-pass filter with -24dB/Octave?
I would like to implement in software the same isolators that the Pioneer EFX-500 features:
The manual says the following about the isolators:
High-performance 3-band Isolator Function
[Fourth-order ...
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Audio Processing Used in Voip Mobile Apps
I am new to VoIP apps and am learning about the various audio processing that are applied in such apps. I have looked at Linphone and ...
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About speech preprocessing in mobile phones
I understand that cell phones transmit speech signals in digital form through 2G/3G or other standards. But I could not find anything about the signal processing method lying in between the analog ...
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Is it accurate to say in digital audio that, when a fader is down, then its value is “-$\infty$”?
Is it accurate to say in digital audio that, when a fader is down, then its value is "-$\infty$"?
What has confused me is, whether it's really $-\infty$ or some lower bound of the amplitude. it could ...
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Cocktail Party Problem — audio source separation
I am trying to solve the Cocktail Party Problem. I am trying to separate these two mixed audio files:
mixed 1 [WAV]
mixed 2 [WAV]
into 2 separate audio files that contain the 2 original sources, ...
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Digital vs Analog music [closed]
What are the different constraints for mastering audio content for either Vinyl or CD?
By the way, I'd like to know if there're any papers or documents, with a comparison between different digital ...
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Detecting a whistle in audio clip or stream?
I have a 5 minute audio clip (~ 50MB) recorded by placing a speaker outside. The goal was to capture a whistle and do further analysis that would help me write code to eventually detect the whistle, ...
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How to delay an audio signal by 1 microsecond? [duplicate]
I have an audio signal sampled at 44100Hz. I want to delay this signal by 1 microsecond (and maybe even less) for a steganographic purpose. Now if I delay it one sample, the corresponding time delay ...
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How many psychoacoustical critical bands are there?
I understand that the human ear works as a band-pass filter and I have doubt regarding the number of such bandpass filters in the filter bank.
I came across these two possible explanations of how it ...
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Software to extract frequency spectrum data from an audio file
I've been trying to learn how computers recognize musical notes, and I found apps like spectrogram which shows the frequency spectrum of a sound, but what I need is the data which is plotted or the ...
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Noise removal and speech enhancements
I am working with peak extraction from audio files (something like shazam) in python. I only need to focus on human speech. Audio is recorded from single channel common mic. Can someone help me with ...
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Hardware requirements for ambient active noise cancallation system using adaptive LMS
Background
I'm working on a hobby project to reduce ambient low-frequency noise generated from HVAC equipment within a small area of a room. The noise is predictable and concentrated between 55Hz and ...
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how to calculate the maximum obtainable directivity for a microphone array?
Introduction
The relationship between the maximum obtainable directivity and aperture of an antenna is described by:
$$ D = \frac{4\pi A_e}{\lambda^2} $$
Where $D$ is the directivity, $A_e$ the ...
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Subtracting audio signal emitted - trying to use spectral subtraction to localize moving objects
I am a Software Engineer without much signal processing background and currently spending and experimenting to get use to it.
My scenario: Assume a speaker and a microphone array. A speaker emits an ...
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Given a log-plot of frequency-magnitude-phase how to apply it as an EQ curve to a signal?
I have several hundred data points that represents an EQ correction curve, where each point contains frequency, magnitude, and phase (-1..+1). The frequencies are distributed exponentially, not ...
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Resample audio signal with a low factors
Currently, we need to handle a piece of an audio signal. We want to resample it with different factor rate (p/q) starting with 1.0002 to 0.9998 with a decrement of 0.000005. But Matlab function cannot ...
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How to generate such sounds as in example? [closed]
I found these files on Internet:
1.wav
2.wav
3.wav
4.wav
How to generate such sounds?
Geno Chen wrote "Acoustic Grand Piano (Instrument #0)"
What to do next?
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Water marking for wav audio (PCM samples)
I would like to know the best audio-water marking technique with below operations,
Add some audio-water marking in my WAV files (PCM samples) & store
Do some processing like, equalization & ...
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Audio Steganography: Inaudible Audio Watermarking for Source Identification
What is a relatively inaudible audio watermarking technique to overlay a broadband audio signal on top of playing music without analysing the music for low-bitrate source identification? Ideally ...
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How is temporal pre masking possible?
I was just learning about psychoacoustic audio data compression and came across some sources suggesting that a strong tonal component (masker) that occurs within a certain short timespan after a ...
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how to get pitch score from comparing 2 audio files
I am new in digital signal processing. I have 2 audio (stereo / 2 channels) files that each audio file says "ba a ta" recorded by 2 different people. Example 2 audio files can be heard on this link ...
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No cross-correlation between same signal recorded using two different microphones
I've recorded the same audio signal using two microphones located at the same approximate location. However, when checking the cross-correlation using MATLAB (using the xcorr function) it is ...
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Remove clips from audio that match fingerprint
I have podcast audio files which contain ad breaks. Before and after each ad break, a distinct sound effect is played that lasts a couple of seconds.
First, I want to know how I can locate all the ...
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Introductory resources to mathematical properties of “dynamically recalculable” filters in audio/musical equalizers?
Introductory resources to mathematical properties of "dynamically recalculable" filters in audio/musical equalizers?
Particularly, I want to understand
What mathematical features (e.g. monotonicity ...
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Where to begin? - Multi source polyphonic pitch detection
I'm quite interested in real time pitch tracking. I have used mcleod pitch method, Yin and other methods to perform real time pitch tracking for a monophonic audio track.
I know that Polyphonic ...
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nearest neighbor implementation matlab
I am trying to implement this research paper:
I understand everything in the paper except the part about the nearest neighbors calculation (section 3).
The only MATLAB function I can think of that ...
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Calculating the SNR of Audio Signal (Recommended Libraries)
Are there any open source packages or libraries available which can be useful in calculating the SNR(signal to noise ratio) of an audio signal.
The input will be just an audio signal and I have to ...
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What are F0 counters in Speech signals? What is represented by F0?
I can't find any dedicated definition for Frequency F0 counters. Can anyone tell me what does F0 exactly mean, I am confused about that.
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Compare twoo Arraylists that contains peaks (fingerprint) of an audio files using python
My main idea is to compare the similarity of twoo audio files,so i already did detected the peaks elements (as shown bellow) of my files -Soud A & Soud B- and put those peaks on an ArrayList -...
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Decreasing Sample Rate in DFT (FFT) for Audio Analysis
I'm working with audio data analysis through FFT algorithm.
My example audio is a sine wave at 440 Hz and 44100 Hz sampling rate.
FFT methods in programming, like ...
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How to recognize for small video sequence with a large sequence?
I'm working on the idea of recognizing a small video sequence (a sequence of 18 seconds) within a long one (a sequence of 15 minutes), the first idea that come to mind stats that I have to ...
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What are some python packages I can use to cut audio files
I have a project in which I have a batch of audio files and I need to remove the audio in it from say time 2secs to 5secs i.e. I have a set duration to be removed. How can I do this in python?
