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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} sinetone (@var{freq}, @var{rate}, @var{sec}, @var{ampl})
## Return a sinetone of frequency @var{freq} with length of @var{sec}
## seconds at sampling rate @var{rate} and with amplitude @var{ampl}.
## The arguments @var{freq} and @var{ampl} may be vectors of common size.
##
## Defaults are @var{rate} = 8000, @var{sec} = 1 and @var{ampl} = 64.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Compute a sine tone

function retval = sinetone (f, r, s, a)

  if (nargin == 1)
    r = 8000;
    s = 1;
    a = 64;
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    s = 1;
    a = 64;
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    a = 64;
  elseif ((nargin < 1) || (nargin > 4))
    usage ("sinetone (freq, rate, sec, ampl)");
  endif

  [err, f, a] = common_size (f, a);
  if (err || ! isvector (f))
    error ("sinetone: freq and ampl must be vectors of common size");
  endif

  if (! (isscalar (r) && isscalar (s)))
    error ("sinetone: rate and sec must be scalars");
  endif

  n = length (f);

  retval = zeros (r * s, n);
  for k = 1:n
    retval (:, k) = a(k) * sin (2 * pi * (1:r*s) / r * f(k))';
  endfor

endfunction