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MATLAB Audio File Operations

This document discusses how to read and write audio files in MATLAB. It shows how to write audio data to a .wav file, get metadata about the file using audioinfo, and then read the data back into MATLAB using audioread. The audio signal is then plotted against time to visualize the audio waveform.

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MATLAB Audio File Operations

This document discusses how to read and write audio files in MATLAB. It shows how to write audio data to a .wav file, get metadata about the file using audioinfo, and then read the data back into MATLAB using audioread. The audio signal is then plotted against time to visualize the audio waveform.

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Read and Write Audio Files - MATLAB & Simulin... [Link]

Read and Write Audio Files


This example shows how to write data to an audio file, get information about the file, and then read data
from the audio file.

Write to Audio File


Get Information About Audio File
Read Audio File
Plot Audio Data

Write to Audio File


Load sample data from the file, [Link]

load [Link]

The workspace now contains a matrix of audio data, y, and a sample rate, Fs.

Use the audiowrite function to write the data to a WAVE file named [Link] in the current folder.

audiowrite('[Link]',y,Fs)
clear y Fs

The audiowrite function also can write to other audio file formats such as OGG, FLAC, and MPEG-4
AAC.

Get Information About Audio File


Use the audioinfo function to get information about the WAVE file, [Link].

info = audioinfo('[Link]')

info =
Filename: 'pwd\[Link]'
CompressionMethod: 'Uncompressed'
NumChannels: 1
SampleRate: 8192
TotalSamples: 73113
Duration: 8.9249
Title: []
Comment: []
Artist: []
BitsPerSample: 16
audioinfo returns a 1-by-1 structure array. The SampleRate field indicates the sample rate of the audio
data, in hertz. The Duration field indicates the duration of the file, in seconds.

Read Audio File


Use the audioread function to read the file, [Link]. The audioread function can support WAVE,
OGG, FLAC, AU, MP3, and MPEG-4 AAC files.

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[y,Fs] = audioread('[Link]');

Play the audio.

sound(y,Fs)

You also can read WAV, AU, or SND files interactively. Select Import Data or double-click the file name
in the Current Folder browser.

Plot Audio Data


Create a vector t the same length as y, that represents elapsed time.

t = 0:seconds(1/Fs):seconds([Link]);
t = t(1:end-1);

Plot the audio data as a function of time.

plot(t,y)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Audio Signal')

See Also
audioinfo | audioread | audiowrite

Related Topics
Import Images, Audio, and Video Interactively

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