SPEK(1) User’s Guide | Version 0.8.5

2023-01-09

NAME

Spek - Acoustic Spectrum Analyser

SYNOPSIS

spek [OPTION ] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Spek generates a spectrogram for the input audio file.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Output the help message then quit.
-V, --version
Output version information then quit.

KEYBINDINGS

Notes

On OS X use the Command key instead of Ctrl.

Ctrl-O
Open a new file.
Ctrl-S
Save the spectrogram as an image file.
Ctrl-E
Show the preferences dialog.
F1
Open online manual in the browser.
Shift-F1
Show the about dialog.

Spectrogram

c, C
Change the audio channel.
f, F
Change the DFT window function.
l, L
Change the lower limit of the dynamic range in dBFS.
p, P
Change the palette.
s, S
Change the audio stream.
u, U
Change the upper limit of the dynamic range in dBFS.
w, W
Change the DFT window size.

FILES

~/.config/spek/preferences
The configuration file for Spek, stored in a simple INI format.

AUTHORS

Alexander Kojevnikov alexander@kojevnikov.com. Other contributors are listed in the LICENCE.md file distributed with the source code.

DISTRIBUTION

The latest version of Spek may be downloaded from http://spek.cc.