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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Cheapo hack. Kinda, sorta, not.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.001905.18554@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 00:19:05 GMT
- References: <Bxn2p0.CsB@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1992Nov21.070525.3948@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <1992Nov21.070525.3948@tamsun.tamu.edu> scm3775@tamsun.tamu.edu (Sean Malloy) writes:
- >
- >Ben Feen writes:
- >>Anyone ever decoded the DTMF at the beginning of track 8 on _Hack_, entitled
- >>"Hard Currency"? I don't have the equipment to do it, and don't feel like
- >>playing it into a telephone to find out who answers...
- >
- >Hmmm... Well, the "simple" solution to decoding DTMF tones (read:
- >doesn't require me to purchase equipment) is to sample the track
- >and write a program to do a discrete Fourier transform on the
- >data and look at the frequency spectrum.
-
- Simple? Come on, use your HEAD, man-- and I mean that literally.
- You've got a great fourier analysis system, working in real time and
- parallel processing, built in. Now, it doesn't return numeric output
- (at least most people's don't...), but you can use an ordinary
- telephone and do comparisons.
-
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- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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