An inspection of the
spectrograms shows that our original algorithm causes smearing in the frequency
domain.Signals processed using the
overlap save algorithm have a frequency response nearly identical to that of
the original unprocessed signal.This
was expected; our original algorithm treated the infinite length input signal
as a series of finite segments.The
segments were simply reconnected for transmission, leading to distortion at all
the connection points.The overlap save
algorithm allows the segments to be reconnected with relatively no
distortion.Qualitatively, the signal
processed using overlap save sounded clearer than the signal processed using
our original algorithm.The original
algorithm caused popping sounds to occur in the processed signal.