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Microsoft Windows has a Sound Recorder utililty. Using Sound Recorder, you can record, mix, play, and edit sounds. You can also link or insert sounds into another document. Windows Media Player can play a variety of digital media files.
See sound cards for basic information about recording audio in a Windows environment.
MATLAB has a variety of methods to create, manipulate, and play audio signals.
| sound | Convert vector into sound |
| soundsc | Scale data and play as sound |
| wavfinfo | Information about Microsoft WAVE (.wav) sound file |
| wavplay | Play recorded sound on PC-based audio output device |
| wavread | Read Microsoft WAVE (.wav) sound file |
| wavrecord | Record sound using PC-based audio input device |
| wavwrite | Write Microsoft WAVE (.wav) sound file |
See example of these functions.
The following software objects are available:
MATLAB supports all Windows-compatible sound devices. Additional sound acquisition and generation capability is available in the Data Acquisition Toolbox. The toolbox functionality includes the ability to buffer the acquisition so that you can analyze the data as it is being acquired. See the examples sound acquisition and sound generation.
Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 19 January 2009