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Re: Audacity and sonograms...

Subject: Re: Audacity and sonograms...
From: "Mitch Hill" wa1ykn
Date: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:21 pm ((PDT))
At 10:58 AM 6/11/2010 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Mitch,
>
>Sonograms and Spectrograms are exactly the same thing.

Ok, Now I'm confused....

In my book, a spectrogram is a frequency vs amplitude graphic display...

A sonogram is Frequency and amplitude over time graphically displayed.

Help???

Also, I have tried getting a pull down menu of the file name, and I find no=

such thing...  Now, are you good folks looking at Audacity version 1.2.6 or=

version 1.3.12?

I'm running Version 1.3.12...   I started out with 1.2.6 and I find quite a=

few changes in the newer version...



  You wrote:
>Audacity DOES generate sonograms (spectrograms).  1. Load your sound
>and see a waveform.  2. Then go to the sub menu accessed via the name
>of your file which is shown on left hand side of the screen.  3. From
>the sub menu choose 'Spectrum'.  Now a sonogram/ spectrogram will
>show on your screen.
>
>Easy when you know what to do :-)


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Thanks,
Mitch & Shadow...









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