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how does this compare to Fast Fourier transform ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform

Or the Discrete Cosine Transform ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform

Or the Gabor Transform ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_transform

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A wavelet naturally gives a spectrogram. The Fourier transform taken on a signal will give you only frequency content, but no idea in time where this frequency occurred. A wavelet naturally gives both time and frequency information. Of course, if you take the Fourier transform at discrete time intervals in blocks, you can also construct a spectrogram.

In what sense?

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