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magnetbox YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	reading mic input pitch and volume Aug 26th, 2008, 7:53am   Is there any library that can give me a # depending on pitch? I want to be able to control X and Y with voice. Would FFT work? I have FFT runnning via ESS, but I'm not exactly sure what FFT is doing exactly. Any help would be much appreciated! thanks

ddf Full Member Offline Posts: 241	Re: reading mic input pitch and volume Reply #1 - Oct 28th, 2008, 2:05am   An FFT converts the audio signal into a spectrum, which is a bunch of frequency bands. What you could do is use the FFT on the incoming audio and then find the frequency band with the highest value and consider that the "pitch" of the incoming audio. Then use that value to drive your animation.
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