Sound Analysis with the Fourier Transform and Python

Link to repo: http://tinyurl.com/fourierpython

Intro

1. Welcome
2. Format of talk
   • Everything is in iPython Notebook (on Github)
   • You don't need to take notes
   • Please save questions for the end
3. Why this is interesting
   • Sound processing is big - natural human-machine interfaces (e.g. Siri)
   • Noise reduction, Compression, feature extraction (e.g. speech)
   • Understanding our universe better (Superposition, Harmonics, Sound timbre)

Overview

• The Nature of Waves
• The Fourier Transform
• Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in Python
• Audio analysis