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How To Hide Messages In Audio Files

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How can we see an audio ? Usually, by its waveform, but we can also see the visual representation of its frequency over time, which is a spectrogram.

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Since every audio can be represented by a visual way, can we construct an audio file from an image, that will be reproduced as its spectrogram ? Yes, we can.

For Windows, I recommend to use the software Coagula Light to do it, which has a graphic interface, so you probably won't have problems: 
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If you are using a Linux distribution, just as me, you may use a perl script called imageSpectrogram, which you can get by git clone:

git clone https://github.com/plurSKI/imageSpectrogram.git

Code:
And you will also need two Perl CPAN dependencies:
Code:
cpan Audio::Wav
Code:
cpan GD


If you have problems trying to get GD, make sure that you have libgd2-xpm-dev:
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev



And try again.

Now you are able to generate the audio file just by running:
./imageSpectrogram file.example

Code:
To make sure that everything will run right, use black and white image with its extension in the name (.png, .jpeg...)

Check the steps in practice below:

[B]Choose the image[/B]

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[B]Make sure you have the script[/B]
[URL="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3KGdrG9r-eAQneCo_GwktAlIo6biTw1b_Xdt1_eMEM_vvUfrvMuBNDZDtxl-6WXXHvlu077HSk3oCoZU549HnZjNzEmAXRajrdUyLkOWE-dn3IO65qST1nc6845Bu_jAMv6x84mRqKxy6bQNrvdCtQA5SwZ1tIEL1rjZdzXrfq-L4j4jpbjgYr89spCLxzMBxvVaLMusYHTZMW7Lw72slGa8DSYatB8nxRSzYOk89DPrPbydHupV8VaFWTpbJPMR5kUbzIkzDIO7V9AzDjvnYicbJ2s3G4JPmdyc-0umD6pvLkYYhqrGmlWgJvvpf0VGWFWptppvG2Rb2_Tii5uhVD0ZUZMbWncQEpA43XEJhBYZO-qsE4IVH7afypiGbl4G1LK61E8_ND5rhzIbIZFTxhP0NFhRcoev50GF7ci5zAEZmt3Ey8u0cuGLKUEjBZ-pPflJOXdFY22oJi60ICdkylq5tsmHXLcbjeNIPHD4Ifki1ssknPMkb5DRgjASdgktetizSXt3b3mm-hJ5QGJpIW3YU0E5Mqip4tWaiaaJomklKIIET1do-ewl7aQqLoKwOauKluVZjpn2OpU3uuuEIIlVUkNQvLvHA5v-Eky-WSaOqke7_yMdR39rHXEIl9gZcZAd0Ngtyx67-go1GNkD7P5Qr3S3e5jU=w562-h316-no"][IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3KGdrG9r-eAQneCo_GwktAlIo6biTw1b_Xdt1_eMEM_vvUfrvMuBNDZDtxl-6WXXHvlu077HSk3oCoZU549HnZjNzEmAXRajrdUyLkOWE-dn3IO65qST1nc6845Bu_jAMv6x84mRqKxy6bQNrvdCtQA5SwZ1tIEL1rjZdzXrfq-L4j4jpbjgYr89spCLxzMBxvVaLMusYHTZMW7Lw72slGa8DSYatB8nxRSzYOk89DPrPbydHupV8VaFWTpbJPMR5kUbzIkzDIO7V9AzDjvnYicbJ2s3G4JPmdyc-0umD6pvLkYYhqrGmlWgJvvpf0VGWFWptppvG2Rb2_Tii5uhVD0ZUZMbWncQEpA43XEJhBYZO-qsE4IVH7afypiGbl4G1LK61E8_ND5rhzIbIZFTxhP0NFhRcoev50GF7ci5zAEZmt3Ey8u0cuGLKUEjBZ-pPflJOXdFY22oJi60ICdkylq5tsmHXLcbjeNIPHD4Ifki1ssknPMkb5DRgjASdgktetizSXt3b3mm-hJ5QGJpIW3YU0E5Mqip4tWaiaaJomklKIIET1do-ewl7aQqLoKwOauKluVZjpn2OpU3uuuEIIlVUkNQvLvHA5v-Eky-WSaOqke7_yMdR39rHXEIl9gZcZAd0Ngtyx67-go1GNkD7P5Qr3S3e5jU=w562-h316-no[/IMG][/URL]

[B]Run it and then you get the audio[/B]
Code:
./imageSpectrogram.pl bait.jpeg



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As it was expected, the sound is kinda weird.

Done
You did it, but at least, we can check it by opening it in Audacity:

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This is showing us its waveform, but if we change to spectrogram by clicking right on the bar with the file's name, we can see:

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Also, you can combine this with other methods, from now it's all up to you.
 
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