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Spectrogram Display

See how frequency content changes over time

Waveform

Spectrogram (Time-Frequency)

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Understanding Spectrograms

X-axis: Time - the horizontal position shows when a frequency occurs

Y-axis: Frequency - the vertical position shows which frequencies are present

Color: Intensity - brighter colors indicate stronger energy at that time-frequency point

Trade-off: Larger window = better frequency resolution but poorer time resolution. Smaller window = opposite. This is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in action!