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DescriptionDemo of mu-law compression.svg
English: Demo of mu-law compression: the input signal (top), a simple sine wave with a linearly increasing amplitude, is compressed in its dynamic range by μ-law (bottom).
frompylabimport*defsgn(v):ifv>=0:return1else:return-1defff(x):"Forward mu-law"returnsgn(x)*log(1+255*abs(x))/log(256)figure(figsize=(9,9))X=arange(0,1.002,.002)ORIG=[x*sin(12*pi*x)forxinX]MULAW=[ff(y)foryinORIG]subplot(211)plot(X,ORIG)title("Original signal")axis((0,1,-1,1))grid()subplot(212)plot(X,MULAW)title("Compressed signal (μ-law)")axis((0,1,-1,1))grid()savefig("mu-law-demo.svg")show()
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