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Im trying to recreate the busy tone on matlab, the tone will have 60 interruptions per minute (50% duty cycle) and I already have the dual tone frequency set. The issue is I have no idea how to make the audio pause 60 times per minute without a long code or looping. Is there a way to utilize the duty cycle to make this easier or shorter, or do I settle with a loop? Fs = 8000; %# Samples per second tone1 = 480; %# Tone 1 frequency, in Hertz tone2 = 620; %# Tone 2 frequency, in Hertz nSeconds = 2; %# Duration of the sound y = sin(linspace(0, nSeconds*tone1*2*pi, round(nSeconds*Fs)))... % Dual tone frequency + sin(linspace(0, nSeconds*tone2*2*pi, round(nSeconds*Fs))); %...
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John Michell
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Answered Aug 17, 2026
It seems that nSeconds should be 0.5s. Each pause should be also 0.5s. Thus it repeats 60 time in a min.
Fs = 8000; %# Samples per second tone1 = 480; %# Tone 1 frequency, in Hertz tone2 = 620; %# Tone 2 frequency, in Hertz nSeconds = 0.5; %# Duration of the sound ns = round(nSeconds*Fs); t = (0:ns-1)'/Fs; y = sin(2*pi*tone1*t)... % Dual tone frequency + sin(2*pi*tone2*t); y = [y; zeros(ns,1)]; % add pause y = repmat(y, 60, 1); % repeat 60 times plot((0:length(y)-1)/Fs, y)
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