October 2017 – CloudACM

Infrasound processing with SoX

October 30, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll cover how to use SoX to make low frequency sounds audible in a range that can be listened to. Infrasound is a low frequency sound wave that ranges from 20 hertz down to .1 hertz. Monitoring audio frequencies in this range is typically done to detect seismic activity that is caused either by nature or artificially, https://www.isla.hawaii.edu/sounds/ocean-sounds/. I have a sample of video that was shot with a Mobius camera. The audio range of the camera’s…

Noise Filtering with SoX

October 23, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll cover how to remove noise in an audio file using SoX. I’ll be using a Raspberry Pi which does not have an audio input by default. To get audio, I used an simple USB audio microphone to capture audio. The OS I’m running on my Pi is Ubuntu Mate and there was no need for anything to get the microphone to run. Once it was plugged in, I ran this command to view the properties of…

Generating DTMF with SoX

October 16, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll show how SoX can generate DTMF, (Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling) which is commonly used in phone and security systems. These dual tone signals are the foundation from which digital communications are based. The technology around DTMF is not complex. Lets cover the history of DTMF. DTMF was developed by Bell Labs and put in production in the early 1960’s. It was mostly used to replace pulse dialing systems that had limits on how far a phone could…

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Autonomous Computational Machines – From Cloud To Chip

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