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audiocapture

Connection between audio input device and Raspberry Pi hardware

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Add-On Required: This feature requires the MATLAB Support Package for Raspberry Pi Hardware add-on.

Description

This object represents a connection between an audio input device and a Raspberry Pi® hardware. You can interact with the audio device using the functions listed in Object Functions.

Creation

Syntax

audioCaptureObj = audiocapture(mypi,DeviceName)
audioCaptureObj = audiocapture(mypi,DeviceName,Name,Value)

Description

audioCaptureObj = audiocapture(mypi,DeviceName) creates an object that represents the connection to the audio input device, DeviceName, connected to the Raspberry Pi hardware, mypi. The Raspberry Pi hardware is represented by a raspi object.

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audioCaptureObj = audiocapture(mypi,DeviceName,Name,Value) sets Properties using name-value pairs. For example, audioCaptureObj = audiocapture(mypi,'plughw:1,0','SampleRate',44100) reads audio data at a sample rate of 44100. You can specify multiple name-value pairs. Enclose each property name in single quotes.

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Input Arguments

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Connection to the Raspberry Pi hardware board, specified as a raspi object.

The name of the audio capture device attached to the hardware.

Data Types: string

Properties

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This property is read-only.

The name of the audio capture device attached to the hardware.

Example: 

>> audioCaptureObj.DeviceName
ans = 
      plughw:1,0

Data Types: string

This property is read-only.

The sample rate used by the audio capture device to read data.

Example: 

>> audioCaptureObj.SampleRate
ans = 
      44100

Data Types: double

This property is read-only.

The number of samples per audio channel.

Example: 

>> audioCaptureObj.SamplesPerFrame
ans = 
      4410

Data Types: double

This property is read-only.

The number of channels supported by the audio capture device.

Example: 

>> audioCaptureObj.NumberOfChannels
ans = 
      2

Data Types: double

Object Functions

captureCapture data from audio device connected to Raspberry Pi

Examples

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Create a connection from the MATLAB® to the Raspberry Pi board. If you encounter errors after running the above command, try using additional arguments (as listed in raspi) or refer to Troubleshoot Connecting Issues to Raspberry Pi Hardware.

Note

This example uses Audio Toolbox.

mypi = raspi;

Create a raspi_pitchshiftdeployment() function. In this function, connections to the audio input and output devices are created using the audiocapture and audioplayer objects. Modify the properties of the audio objects to match the properties of the device that you are using.

function raspi_pitchshiftdeployment()
% This function is used to deploy an audio processing application to a
% Raspberry Pi. The specific application of interest is pitch-shifting.
% This function takes audio input from a device connected to the Raspberry
% Pi, pitch-shifts this audio input to the desired pitch and then sends
% this output to the playback device connected to the Raspberry Pi

%#codegen
% Copyright 2019 The MathWorks, Inc.

% Create capture and playback system objects for audio processing on
% Raspberry Pi Hardware.

r = raspi();
captureObj = audiocapture(r,'plughw:2,0','SampleRate', 48000, 'SamplesPerFrame', 4800);

playbackObj = audioplayer(r,'plughw:2,0', 'SampleRate', 48000);

% Settings for pitch shifting operation
pitch = -5;         % Pitch shift in semi-tones
overlap = 0.2;      % Overlap of delay line
Fs = 8192;          % Sampling Frequency


pitchShifter = audiopluginexample.PitchShifter('PitchShift',8,'Overlap',0.3);
setSampleRate(pitchShifter,Fs);

for k = 1:3000
    % capture audio input from the input device
    input = capture(captureObj);
    
    % pitch shift the audio input.
    % input is of type int16 and needs to be converted to type double
    % before processing the data. This is because the function shiftPitch
    % expects all its inputs to be of the same data type which in this case
    % is type double
    
    pitchShifted = zeros(size(double(input)),'like',double(input)); %#ok<PREALL>
    
    pitchShifter.PitchShift = pitch;
    pitchShifter.Overlap = overlap;
    
    [pitchShifted] = pitchShifter(double(input));
    
    % playback audio output using the output device
    % output data needs to be of type int16 and thus pitchShifted
    % which is a double is cast to be of type int16 before being sent to
    % the device
    play(playbackObj,int16(pitchShifted));
end
end

Create a Raspberry Pi configuration object, board.

[board = targetHardware('Raspberry Pi')
board = 
targetHardware with properties:

               Name: 'Raspberry Pi'
      DeviceAddress: '172.18.182.234'
           Username: 'pi'
           Password: '*********'
           BuildDir: '/home/pi'
    EnableRunOnBoot: 0
        BuildAction: 'Build, load, and run'
        CoderConfig: [1×1 coder.CodeConfig]

Deploy the raspi_pitchshiftdeployment() function on Raspberry Pi using the configuration object, board. On successful deployment, hold the audio capture device close to your mouth and start speaking. You can hear your pitch shifted voice through the audio playback device.

deploy(board,'raspi_pitchshiftdeployment')
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Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2019b

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