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Dabbasza YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Sound recognition May 13th, 2009, 7:03am   Hi.  I want to have processing recognize when Im blowing into the microphone and when the sound has stopped and then to activate a command when this is happening.  Does anyone have any idea on how to accomplish this? thanks.

NoahBuddy Ex Member	Re: Sound recognition Reply #1 - May 15th, 2009, 1:05pm   Prowler had an interesting project with recording notes. http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1208016366.html Might be overkill for just having a sound/no sound test. You could use Minim (or another sound library) to get the volume level from the mic.

jack22602 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Sound recognition Reply #2 - Dec 11th, 2009, 9:59am   Hi! Did you ever manage to read the blowing sound via your mic? I would  love to see your solution code as I am trying to do something similar and am so stuck! Thx for your time!

Guru YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 37	Re: Sound recognition Reply #3 - Jan 9th, 2010, 12:37pm   I have written a simple processing sketch that moves a small cloud across the screen when someone blows into the microphone (or makes any other noises ) the code is available here http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2010/01/04/floating-processing-cloudes-with-minim

273K YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: Sound recognition Reply #4 - Jun 8th, 2010, 9:21pm   Thanks, Guru.  Works like a charm for testing in both windows and linux.