Audio Analysis
Now that we have gone over more advanced ways that AudioTrack may be used, how about looking at what else we might do with audio as it comes in through an AudioRecord object?
Capturing Sound for Analysis
As previously described, sound is vibration traveling through a substance. These vibrations can be captured by a microphone. Microphones convert the vibrations that travel through air into a constantly varying electrical current. When a microphone is used to capture sound by a computer, that sound is digitized. Specifically, amplitude samples of a specific size (sample size) are taken many times a second (sample rate). This stream of data is called a PCM (pulse code modulation) stream, which forms the foundation for digital audio. ...
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