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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
    * Scilab ( http://www.scilab.org/ ) - This file is part of Scilab
    * Copyright (C) ????-2006 - INRIA - Scilab 
    * 
    * This file must be used under the terms of the CeCILL.
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:scilab="http://www.scilab.org" xml:id="loadwave" xml:lang="en">
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>loadwave</refname>
        <refpurpose>load a sound wav file into scilab</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Calling Sequence</title>
        <synopsis>x=loadwave(filename);
            [x,y]=loadwave(filename);
        </synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>filename</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string. The path of the wav file to be loaded</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>x</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a matrix one line for each channel</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>y</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>vector as [data format, number of channels, samples per second
                        per channel, estimate of bytes per second needed, byte alignment of
                        a basic sample block, bits per sample, length of sound data in
                        bytes, bytes per sample (per channel)].
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            Reads a <literal>.wav</literal> sound file into Scilab as a matrix.
            If y is given, it is filled with information about the samples (See the
            message sent by <literal>loadwave</literal>).
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example"><![CDATA[ 
// At first we create 0.5 seconds of sound parameters.
t=soundsec(0.5);

// Then we generate the sound: a two channels sound.
s=[sin(2*%pi*440*t);sin(2*%pi*350*t)];
savewave(TMPDIR+'/foo.wav',s);
s1=loadwave(TMPDIR+'/foo.wav');
max(abs(s1-s))
 ]]></programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See Also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="savewave">savewave</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="analyze">analyze</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mapsound">mapsound</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
</refentry>