sound file

collocation in English

meaningsofsoundandfile

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sound
noun
uk
/saʊnd/
us
/saʊnd/
something that you can hear or that can ...
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file
noun
uk
/faɪl/
us
/faɪl/
any of several different types of container used to store papers, letters, and other documents in an ordered way, especially in ...
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(Definition ofsoundandfilefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsound file

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It is possible for the phase to decrement rather than increment and for thesoundfileto be read backwards.
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The spectral view showed how each transformation affected the frequencies throughout thesoundfile.
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This is so that the frequency components of the originalsoundfilecan be captured in the grain.
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The effect of this editing was to create a singlesoundfilethat had two presentations of the same nonword, without a predetermined interstimulus interval.
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The two streams might then diverge, each transforming thesoundfilein different ways, changing the density, pitch and speed independently.
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This is because side effects are introduced by the overlapping grains containing different portions of thesoundfile.
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Following this, each transcript was subsequently linked to thesoundfileby a second transcriber.
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If the rate at whichsoundfiledata is read internally within the grain is altered, the pitch of the sound will rise or fall.
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In other words, the grain is not based on a synthesised waveform but on a segment of asoundfile.
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To demonstrate how a filter could alter a sound, the teacher opened asoundfilecontaining the lowest eight notes on a church organ.
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Initially the identical streams might both have settings such that they reproduce the originalsoundfileunaltered.
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At normal speed the grains will move through thesoundfileat the speed it was originally recorded.
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One can hear how thissoundfileis used in excerpt 2 on the website, near the beginning.
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In both cases, the residual can be kept as a (non-mutable)soundfileor modelled spectrally.
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Table 2 shows the results of classification of musical genres on novel musicalsoundfiledata.
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Negative values cause thesoundfileto be read in retrograde within each grain.
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If the rate at which successive grains progress through thesoundfileis altered, the temporal evolution of the sound will be stretched or contracted.
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The correspondingsoundfilewas taken from the corpus and the parenthetical was edited out.
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Participants could make a response any time after the start of the secondsoundfile.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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