16bit Audio data: 2Bytes to double dec conversion

When I use either uiopen or audioread, my 16bit(2Bytes) wav file will be converted into double(8Bytes).

How can I read my data in 2Bytes order?

I tried typecast(wavfile, 'int16') but they are in 8Bytes order.

I also tried dec2hex but the same thing, it is 64bit data.

Do I lose 2Byte format when I read audio data into Matlab?

Something looking for the equivalent function of bytearray() or list[] in Python.

Thank you

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

use the 'native' option for audioread()