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- From: alvin@top.cis.syr.edu (Alvin Leung)
- Subject: Re: Cheapo hack. Kinda, sorta, not.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.154043.14723@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University CIS Dept.
- References: <Bxn2p0.CsB@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1992Nov21.070525.3948@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Nov22.001905.18554@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 15:40:43 EST
- Approved: Not me.
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- In article <1992Nov22.001905.18554@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- |> 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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- Is not that difficult, if you have a sound card that can sample and a PC.
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- ObHack:
- This post. Will it work?
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- Alvin
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