Extract frequency samples from .wav file

Hi,

I'd like to get a list of frequencies from a .wav file, but I don't have any idea how. I've tried to use the function wavread, from which I can get the amplitude values and plot them against the time, but what I want is to get and plot the discrete frequency values of the sound file (as I show in the image I've attached). The code I've used is the following one, and it would be perfect if I could do exactly the same operations but with the frequency values instead of the amplitude ones.

[wave,fs]=wavread('filename.wav');

t=0:1/fs:(length(wave)-1)/fs;

plot(t,wave);

Could anyone here give me a hand? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

stem(abs(fft(wave)))

[FirstName LastName]

Well... What I get from plotting the FFT is not exactly the union of all the frequency samples. I attach an image of the result of using this command. I would want to get something similar to the image below the amplitude graphs. The amplitude graph I get by using plot(t,wave) is correct, the problem I have is that I need to get the same but with frequency values. Thanks!

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

If you have the Signal Processing Toolbox, use the spectrogram function. That may provide what you want.

[FirstName LastName]

Thanks for your answer! I see that with the spectrogram function I can plot a lot of different graphs, but I don't just want to plot the frequency values, I also want to get and access them, that's the problem.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure.

You can get data from spectrogram by asking it for outputs. All the data it calculates are available. See the documentation on Spectrogram and Instantaneous Frequency for details.