From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Nov 29 03:31:11 1994
Subject: Re: Newbie would like to play audio files created in octave
From: roberts at doublon dot unice dot fr (Tony Roberts)
To: ric at updike dot sri dot com (Richard Steinberger)
Cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 10:32:36 +0100

>Can anyone help an octave newbie with this?  I would like to be able to
>play (through /dev/audio or other machine-dependent device) files
>of signals I create, import or modify in the octave environment.
>In other words I would like to be able to do something like:
>
>octave:6> play(x);
>

I guess one possibility is to use the shell_cmd function to execute the sun
audiotool.  You woud presumably have to write the sound out to a scratch
file before audiotool could play it.  I do a similar thing for plotting via
xgraph (because I do not have access to gnuplot here).

                                     Tony      :-{)}
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