Re: Which is more sensitive? - spectrogram software or human hearing

["im_rawes" im_rawes]

--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> > Just curious:  Can a human hear and distinguish more acutely than a
> > computer spectrogram can display or visualize?
>
> I would say yes and no--If you can hear something, you can adjust a spect=
rogram software to show it, but there's no one setting that would show ever=
ything you can hear.
>
> -Dan
>

The spectrogram has the advantage of turning a time-based auditory experien=
ce into a visual depiction where sounds of a shortish duration can be inspe=
cted at leisure.

But the spectrogram's plot shows no auditory intelligence, so to speak. It =
cannot parse an auditory scene into its component sound objects in the way =
that our sense of hearing does effortlessly.

(Mind you, I still like looking at spectrograms.)

Ian

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