How get the exact silence time

[JARS]

I need to analize a wave file to get the exact silence time before the tone signal.
I saw that changing the BufferCount and BufferLength the result time also change.
Witch is the rigth way to get this time?

Thanks in advance
Jorge

[Kambiz]

The get the exact time, you have to count the wave data bytes before the silence, and then pass that offset to the following function to convert it to milliseconds.

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function WaveOffsetToMS(const pWaveFormat: PWaveFormatEx; Offset: DWORD): DWORD;
var
  NumOfSamples: DWORD;
begin
  with pWaveFormat^ do
  begin
    if nBlockAlign > 1 then
      Offset := nBlockAlign * (Offset div nBlockAlign);
    if (wBitsPerSample > 0) and (nSamplesPerSec > 0) then
    begin
      NumOfSamples := Trunc(Offset * (wBitsPerSample / 8));
      Result := Trunc(1000 * (NumOfSamples / nSamplesPerSec));
    end
    else
      Result := Trunc(1000 * (Offset / nAvgBytesPerSec));
  end;
end;

[JARS]

Thanks Kambiz for your help, but how "count the wave data bytes"
I never work with audio files and I've not idea.

[Kambiz]

It's similar to reading a file using stream object.

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var
  Wave: TWaveFile;
  BytesRead: Integer;
  Buffer: array[0..1023] of Byte;
begin
  Wave := TWaveFile.Create('C:\Sample.wav', fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);
  try
    Wave.BeginRead;
    try
      BytesRead := Wave.Read(Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer));
      while BytesRead > 0 do
      begin
        // process the buffer
        BytesRead := Wave.Read(Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer));
      end;
    finally
      Wave.EndRead;
    end;
  finally
    Wave.Free;
  end;
end;

For accessing raw data you can use also TWaveStreamAdapter class, which is more generic than TWaveFile class.

However interpreting raw data may be complicated for some wave formats. Hopefully, PCM format has a straight forward definition, and makes audio processing easy.

[Kambiz]

I forgot to tell that if instead of TWaveFile and TWaveStreamAdapter you use TWaveStreamConverter, you can get the buffer in the format that is easier to process. In this case, before calling BeginRead, call SetBufferFormat to specify in which format the buffer should be.

And one more thing, BeginRead return false if it cannot convert the buffer to the specified format.