THE AUDITORY MODELING TOOLBOX

Applies to version: 1.4.0

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PLOT_AUDSPECGRAM - Auditory spectrogram

Usage:

plot_audspecgram(insig,fs,op1,op2, ... );
C=plot_audspecgram(insig,fs, ... );

Description:

plot_audspecgram(insig,fs) plots an auditory spectrogram of the signal insig, which has been sampled at a sampling rate of fs Hz. The output is low-pass modulation filtered before presentation.

The frequency axis is diplayed on a erb-scale, but labelled in Hz. Using the mouse to get plot coordinates will reveal the real value in erb's. Use erbtofreq to convert to Hz.

C=plot_audspecgram(insig,fs, ... ) returns the image to be displayed as a matrix. Use this in conjunction with imwrite etc. Do not use this as a method to compute an auditory representation. Use some of the model preprocessing functions for this.

Additional arguments can be supplied like this:

plot_audspecgram(insig,fs,'dynrange',30);

The arguments must be character strings possibly followed by an argument:

'adt' Model adaptation. This is the default. This options also sets the output to be displayed on a linear scale.
'no_adt' Do not model adaptation. This option also sets a dB scale to display the output.
'ihc',modelname Pass modelname to ihcenvelope to determine the inner hair cell envelope extraction process to use. Default is to use the 'dau' model.
'classic' Display a classic spectrogram. This option is equal to {'ihc','hilbert', 'no_adt', 'no_mf'}
'mlp',f Modulation low-pass filter to frequency f. Default is to low-pass filter to 50 Hz.
'mf',f Modulation filter with specified center frequency.
'no_mf' No modulation filtering of any kind.
'image' Use imagesc to display the spectrogram. This is the default.
'clim',clim Use a colormap ranging from \(clim(1)\) to \(clim(2)\). These values are passed to imagesc. See the help on imagesc.
'dynrange',r Limit the displayed dynamic range to r. This option is especially usefull when displaying on a dB scale (no adaptation).
'fullrange' Use the full dynamic range. This is the default.
'ytick' A vector containing the frequency in Hz of the yticks.
'thr',r Keep only the largest fraction r of the coefficients, and set the rest to zero.
'frange',frange Choose a frequency scale ranging from \(frange(1)\) to \(frange(2)\), values are entered in Hz. Default is to display from 0 to 8000 Hz.
'xres',xres Approximate number of pixels along x-axis / time.
'yres',yres Approximate number of pixels along y-axis / frequency If only one of 'xres' and 'yres' is specified, the default aspect ratio will be used.
'displayratio',r Set the default aspect ratio.
'contour' Do a contour plot to display the spectrogram.
'surf' Do a surf plot to display the spectrogram.
'mesh' Do a mesh plot to display the spectrogram.
'colorbar' Display the colorbar. This is the default.
'no_colorbar' Do not display the colorbar.

Examples:

The following figure shows a classic spectrogram on an Erb scale of a spoken word:

plot_audspecgram(greasy,16000,'classic','dynrange',50);
plot_audspecgram_1_1.png

The next example shows a Dau-style spectrogram (including adaptation and modulation low-pass filtering) of the same word:

plot_audspecgram(greasy,16000);
plot_audspecgram_2_1.png