I have a very long audio file (10 hours). I also have a shorter audio file (10 seconds). The short audio file is a small piece of the long audio file. I.e the long audio file in some place contains the short audio file. But I don't know where.
How can I search in the long audio file for the short audio file? In other words how I can match these 2 files and find where in the long file the short file occurs?
I'm using OSX 10.12.16 but can accept solutions for Windows, OSX, or Linux.
Audio files are essentialy arrays (or vectors) of numeric values. If the audio files are uncompressed, the short audio file should exactly match a sequence of values within the long audio file. That means you could use tools like Matlab, Octave, Python (with modules) etc. to read in the audio as an array-like data type and then use provided functions to search for the shorter sequence in the longer one.
If the audio files are compressed, it's not certain that their numeric values will exactly match. In that case, you could either preprocess them by quantizing them to a lower bit depth (e.g. from 16 bit to 8 bit) and hope that afterwards they'll match. Or you could compute the cross-correlation between the two signals and see where they are correlated the strongest—that should be the point where they match. The cross-correlation can also be computed with the tools linked above.
