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Sylvain Leroux
Sylvain Leroux

Reputation: 51990

How to extract the envelope from a sound file?

I need to extract the sound wave envelope from a set of audio files in a batch job on a headless Linux host.

I think this can be achieved using the Nyquist programming language, a variant of Lisp notably embedded in audacity, and dedicated to sound processing. However, if I have some familiarities with Lisp, I don't have any previous experience with Nyquist.

Is there some primitive in Nyquist to achieve that directly? Or how can I write a short Nyquist program to extract the envelope of a sound?

I tried using the snd-avg function. But it does not seem to produce a smooth envelope (upper half in the screenshot):

(snd-avg
  (aref *track* 0)                 ; first sound
  (truncate (/ *sound-srate* 50))  ; 50 Hz to samples
  1 op-peak)                       ; follow peak values

Envelope obtained using <code>snd-avg</code>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 446

Answers (1)

Sylvain Leroux
Sylvain Leroux

Reputation: 51990

I obtained decently good results by applying a low-pass filter after snd-avg in order to remove the staircase ripples:

(lp 
  (snd-avg
    (aref *track* 0)
    (truncate (/ *sound-srate* 1000)) ; 1kHz
    1 op-peak)
  50)                                 ; 50 Hz low-pass

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

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