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Yujian Tang
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3359
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English
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Summary

PyTorch's TorchAudio library, an extension for handling audio data, enables sophisticated audio manipulations, including effects, background noise, and room reverb additions, which are crucial for machine learning models. TorchAudio supports audio transformations and feature extractions, such as creating spectrograms and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), essential for analyzing audio timbre and spectral features. The library also facilitates advanced resampling techniques using various filters and methods, such as low-pass, rolloff, and window filters, to adjust audio data for different sampling rates. Detailed examples are provided to demonstrate the practical applications of these features, illustrating the library's capability to enhance the quality and utility of audio data in machine learning workflows.