in reply to Detection of faulty equipment based on anomaly in sound
Effictively your question lacks of everything that makes a good one, but as it's your first one..
Almost everything is possible in Perl! see Re: Manipulating Audio Data in Perl which has a working example using PDL::FFT
Also Audio::Analyzer can be a starting point.
You can find interesting sounds at: failing hard drive sounds
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