phonTools (version 0.1-6)

loadsound: Load WAV files into R

Description

A function which allows WAV files to be loaded into R.

Usage

loadsound (filename)

Arguments

filename

A string indicating the file name of the WAV file to be loaded. If no filename is provided, a dialog box will open allowing the user to select a file.

Value

• An object of class 'sound', a list containing the elements:
• filename
  a vector containing the filename of the WAV file.
• fs
  the sampling frequency of the sound.
• duration
  the duration of the sound, in milliseconds.
• sound
  a vector of numeric values representing the sampled sound.

Details

The function is only compatible with 8 and 16 bit WAV files. Only mono WAV files are supported. The function returns a 'sound object'. The following functions interact with 'sound' objects: Ffilter() FIRfilter() loadsound() makesound() plot() powertrack() spectrogram() vowelsynth() writesound()

References

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

Examples

## For example, for a file named 'filemame.wav' in the working directory
## sound = loadsound ('filename.wav')

## sound
## plot (sound)