A function simulator as a tool for educating digital sound basics

Authors
Publication date 2011
Book title The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: Hong Kong, China, August 17-21, 2011: congress proceedings
Event 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII)
Pages (from-to) 2114-2117
Publisher Hong Kong: Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract We describe a computer application that offers students and teachers, especially those with no real mathematical background, the possibility to learn the relation between, for example, elementary sounds and their mathematical formulation as sine functions with frequency, amplitude and phase parameters. The sampling of analog signals and the relation between the sampling frequency and a faithful representation of the sound can easily be demonstrated. Aliasing can be made audible and visible in several ways.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://www.icphs2011.hk/resources/OnlineProceedings/RegularSession/Weenink/Weenink.pdf
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