In octave, there is not function like wavplay or sound such in Matlab. Octave has own function to play audiofile i.e playaudio, but it is never work for me. Instead of repair the playaudio function in Octave, below is simple script function to play sound file in Octave.
Please copy the code below and paste to your PC (work on Ubuntu Linux) as playsound.m
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% This function play the singal x as a sound.
% playsound(x, fs, bits)
% x : a signal vector
% fs: sampling frequency in Hz
% bits: quantization bits
%
% If encounter a error, try to transpose a signal vector,
% like playsound(x',fs,bits)
function playsound(x,fs,bits)
if (nargin != 3)
usage("playsound(x,fs,bits)");
endif
file= strcat(tmpnam(),".wav");
wavwrite(file,x,fs,bits);
system(sprintf("/usr/bin/paplay %s ; rm -f %s",file,file));
endfunction
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And then, in your playsound.m directory, run octave in terminal
[sound, fs,bit]=wavread('sound.wav');
playsound(sound, fs, bit)
To make it available in every where of your octave, just add this function to your function library. If there is not available you can make directory by the following steps
sudo mkdir ~/func
and in your playsound.m file, type the code below to copy that fucntion to destination folder.
sudo cp playsound.m ~/func
Now, the final step is to add the 'func' to your Octave path by this ways,
sudo nano ~/.octave rc
And then in octave rc type the following command;
addpath(genpath ("~/func"));You should play audio file in Octave every where!
