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Abdulzahra786 · Feb 9, 2021 · 1.9K views
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Hi, I have the following code. x1=wavread('speech.wav'); x2=wavread('speech_noise.wav'); I have to do x2-x1 I am getting the error as Dimension mismatch. How to rectify it?
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Answered Nov 20, 2025
Assuming they correspond to the same sampling rates, truncate one of them to be of the same length as the smaller one:
 
 
n1 = length(x1);
n2 = length(x2);

% Assuming n1 < n2
x2 = x2(1:n1)

Or maybe you want to interpolate

x2 = interp1(1:n2, x2, linspace(1, n2, n1));
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