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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Andreas Weingessel
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} synthesis (@var{y}, @var{c})
+## Compute a signal from its short-time Fourier transform @var{y} and a
+## 3-element vector @var{c} specifying window size, increment, and
+## window type.
+##
+## The values @var{y} and @var{c} can be derived by
+##
+## @example
+## [@var{y}, @var{c}] = stft (@var{x} , @dots{})
+## @end example
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: AW <Andreas.Weingessel@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
+## Description: Recover a signal from its short-term Fourier transform
+
+function x = synthesis (y, c)
+
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ [nr, nc] = size (c);
+ if (nr * nc != 3)
+ error ("synthesis: C must contain exactly 3 elements");
+ endif
+
+ w_size = c(1);
+ inc = c(2);
+ w_type = c(3);
+
+ if (w_type == 1)
+ w_coeff = hanning (w_size);
+ elseif (w_type == 2)
+ w_coeff = hamming (w_size);
+ elseif (w_type == 3)
+ w_coeff = ones (w_size, 1);
+ else
+ error ("synthesis: window_type must be 1, 2, or 3");
+ endif
+
+ z = real (ifft (y));
+ st = fix ((w_size-inc) / 2);
+ z = z(st:st+inc-1, :);
+ w_coeff = w_coeff(st:st+inc-1);
+
+ nc = columns(z);
+ for i = 1:nc
+ z(:, i) = z(:, i) ./ w_coeff;
+ endfor
+
+ x = reshape(z, inc * nc, 1);
+
+endfunction