loadsound {phonTools}

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.

Details

The function is only compatible with 8 and 16 bit mono WAV files. The function returns a 'sound object'. Many of the functions included in this package interact with 'sound' objects.

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.

Author(s)

Santiago Barreda <[e-mail]>

References

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

Examples

## Use the command below to select a WAV file to load into R
## sound = loadsound ()

## sound
## plot (sound)
## spectrogram (sound)