Isolating a Time-Frequency Component

This procedure shows how to isolate a time-frequency component.

To Isolate a Time-Frequency Component:

Prerequisites: You need to Open or calculate a time frequency representation. You need to select a time frequency component in the representation. You need to display the playback controls.
  1. Right-click the time frequency representation.
  2. Select Isolate selected area in the right-click menu to only display the isolated selection.
    Figure 1. On the left, several components are selected in Bird_plus_idle.wav* time-frequency representation. On the right, the selected components (here the bird tweet tweet) are isolated in the time-frequency representation. *Bird_plus_idle.wav is located in SoundSamples/TestSounds.
  3. Click Play synthesized sound .
  4. Click Play original sound .
  5. Click File > Save as time domain signal to save the synthesized signal.
  6. Click Enable/disable synchronous play to resume playback from the point where you switched from the synthesized to the original sound.

The time-frequency component is isolated.