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NAME

       wsola  -  program  to  stretch  and compress (speed up/slow down) audio
       without altering its pitch.

SYNOPSIS

       wsola inputFile outputFile factor

DESCRIPTION

       wsola speeds up or slows down audio, without pitch alteration. The  two
       files  input/output  are accessed using the libsndfile library and thus
       may be in many formats supported by libsndfile.
       The input argument ’factor’ specifies the output speed  of  the  audio.
       Factors  >  1 imply slowing of audio. Factors < 1 imply the speeding up
       of audio. For example a factor of 0.5 will  double  the  speed  of  the
       audio.  A  factor  of 2.0 will halve the speed of the audio. A factor =
       1.0 will leave the audio unaltered.
       WSOLA operates using the Waveform Similarity overlap  add  method  [1].
       For  more information on the signal processing employed by WSOLA please
       read the file ’hybridDomainProcessing.pdf’.

AUTHOR

       wsola was written by Matt Flax <flatmax@ieee.org>.

REFERENCES

       [1] @InProceedings{Verhelst:1993,
         author =       {Verhelst, W. and Roelands, M.},
         title =        {An overlap-add technique based on waveform similarity
       (WSOLA) for high quality time-scale modification of speech},
         booktitle  = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
       Signal Pr ocessing},
         pages =        {554-557},
         year =         {1993},
         volume =       {2},
         month =        {April} }

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