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document PCM format conversion utilities
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:04:59 +0000
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1 What file format should be used for 16-bit PCM sample recordings? The first
2 (in the order of development) group of utilities in the present package that
3 need to read and write such files are gsm[e]fr-encode and gsm[e]fr-decode,
4 designed to mirror amrnb-enc and amrnb-dec from opencore-amr FOSS package;
5 these utilities read and write WAV files and even use WAV reading and writing
6 functions copied from opencore-amrnb test code.
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8 However, as I (Mother Mychaela) keep developing more tools, my use cases become
9 more diverse: in some use cases WAV is most convenient (e.g., when playing or
10 recording with SoX tools), but in other use cases a raw sample file without any
11 header is much more convenient. To address this diversity of use cases, a pair
12 of conversion utilities have been written:
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14 pcm16-raw2wav converts from raw format to WAV
15 pcm16-wav2raw converts from WAV to raw format
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17 Both utilities take a mandatory command line argument specifying the endian
18 order for the raw format - there is no default.