---
name: "sphinx_cont_adseg"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sphinxbase-utils"
version: "0.8-6"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sphinx_cont_adseg"
---

# sphinx\_cont\_adseg(1)

Read audio from the audio device and segment it

## NAME

sphinx\_cont\_adseg - Read audio from the audio device and segment it

## SYNOPSIS

**sphinx\_cont\_adseg** *sampling-rate* *silence-threshold*

## DESCRIPTION

This program reads audio from the system audio device and segments it into individual non-silence regions.  The argument *sampling-rate* is the sampling rate to read audio at (e.g. 16000), while the argument *silence-threshold* is the number of seconds to wait before deciding that a non-silence region is done (e.g. 1.0).

## AUTHOR

Written by M. K. Ravishankar \<rkm@cs.cmu.edu\>.  This manual page by David Huggins-Daines \<dhuggins@cs.cmu.edu\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1999-2001 Carnegie Mellon University.  See the file *COPYING* included with this package for more information.\