Spectrogram Painter

Turn an image or a text into a sound whose spectrogram draws it, like the face Aphex Twin hid in Windowlicker, as a WAV, without uploading it

Drop an image here or click to browse You can also paste it. Nothing is uploaded.

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Spectrogram Download WAV

The spectrogram of the sound itself, analyzed as a viewer would (2 048-sample window). Open the WAV in Audio Spectrum, Audacity or any spectrogram app to find the picture.

Sound

Duration

The picture's width, in time.

Frequency scale

Linear Log

The one of the viewer: linear in most (Audacity, Spek, Sonic Visualiser), log in a musical one. On the other, the picture is stretched.

Lowest

Highest

The picture's height, from its bottom to its top. Above 16 kHz, an MP3 or a video's sound would cut it off.

Lines

Dynamic range

How much quieter the darkest gray is than white. Black is silence.

Invert

The dark parts loud: for a drawing or a text on white.