Matlab for Computing Spectrograms

The Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox provides the command spectrogram for computing and displaying a spectrogram (and Octave has the command stft). As a side effect, it returns the complex STFT data in a matrix.

The myspectrogram function below illustrates computation of a spectrogram in matlab for purposes of basic spectrum analysis. It is compatible with the basic functionality of Matlab's spectrogram function, but does not implement all of its features.

We also include invmyspectrogram, which inverts a spectrogram to reproduce the corresponding time-domain signal. Finally, testmyspectrogram is included to illustrate their performance on test signal.