inverse_db()

audmath.inverse_db(y, *, bottom=-120)

Convert decibels to amplitude value.

The inverse of a value $y \in \R$ provided in decibel is given by

$$\text{inverse\_db}(y) = \begin{cases} 10^\frac{y}{20}, & \text{if } y > \text{bottom} \\ 0, & \text{else} \end{cases}$$

where $\text{bottom}$ is provided by the argument of same name.

Parameters

• y (Union[int, float, Sequence, ndarray]) – input signal in decibels

• bottom (Union[int, float]) – minimum decibel value which should be converted. Lower values will be set to 0. If set to None it will return 0 only for input values of -np.Inf

Return type

Union[floating, ndarray]

Returns

input signal

Examples

>>> inverse_db(0)
1.0
>>> inverse_db(-120)
0.0
>>> inverse_db(-3)
0.7079457843841379
>>> inverse_db([-120, 0])
array([0., 1.])