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Digitization of Sound

Let us first analyse what a sound actually is:

A variety of sound sources:

Source
-- Generates Sound

The destination receives (sensed the sound wave pressure changes) and has to deal with accordingly:

Destination
-- Receives Sound

Sound is required input into a computer: it needs to sampled or digitised:

Continuous Analog Waveform


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Dave Marshall
10/4/2001