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Quiz to review the topics covered in the first week of the course, mainly in the theory and
demonstrations lectures.

Question 1
How could you define the field of Audio Signal Processing?
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is a software program with which we can analyze and manipulate

sounds
is a music discipline of relevance to electronic music
is a group of programming techniques to be used in a variety of
engineering topics
is an engineering field that focuses on the computational methods
for intentionally altering sounds
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Question 2
Which of these are applications of the field of Audio Signal Processing? (Select all that apply)
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data compression

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compressing of audio signals

biomechanics

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study of movement and structure of living

organisms

text retrieval

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retrieval of text information in documents or

repositories

effects and
transformations

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adding sounds effects and transforming sounds

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describe the content of an audio signal

audio description
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Question 3
What is a sinewave?
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the frequencies that compose a sound

it is synonymous to square wave
a mathematical curve that describes a smooth repetitive
oscillation
the sound of a musical instrument rich in harmonics
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Question 4
A complex number has two parts
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the real and imaginary parts
a positive and a negative number

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a sine and a cosine time-varying functions

a left and a right part
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Question 5
What is Python?
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a website with good information about sounds

a software application for editing sound
the name of an engineer specialists in music
a general purpose high-level programming language
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Question 6
What is Audacity?
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a software program to visualize, edit and analyze sounds

a technique analyze sounds
a program to perform text retrieval
a software program developed at Universitat Pompeu Fabra of
Barcelona
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Question 7
Two sequences are orthogonal if
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their inner product is 0

they have the same values
one is symmetric to the other
they sum to unity
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Question 8
What is sms-tools?
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a system handling sms text messages

a matlab software library for computing the spectrum of sounds
a set of software tools for analysis and synthesis of sounds
a sound editor for visualizing and editing sounds
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Question 9
What is numpy?
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a Python package for scientific computing, mainly for processing

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arrays
a part of Python useful for plotting sounds and other type of data
a Python package for text processing
the package of python that includes all the signal processing
functions
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Question 10
What is github?
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a discussion forum for people interested in sound and music

a library of tools for audio signal processing
a web-based hosting service for source code management
a website for sharing music and sounds
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