read_wac: Read WAC files from Wildlife Acoustics recorders

In bioacoustics: Analyse Audio Recordings and Automatically Extract Animal Vocalizations

Description

Convert a Wildlife Acoustics' proprietary compressed WAC file into a Wave object

Usage

read_wac(file, time_exp = 1, write_wav = NULL, ...)

Arguments

file	a WAC file.
time_exp	integer. Time expansion factor of the recording. Set to 1 for real-time recording or above for time expanded recording. Default setting is 1.
write_wav	optional folder path where WAV files will be written.
...	currently not implemented.

Value

A Wave object.

Examples

filepath <- system.file("extdata", "recording_20170716_230503.wac", package = "bioacoustics")
read_wac(filepath)

bioacoustics documentation built on Feb. 8, 2022, 5:06 p.m.