diff --git a/src/Audio911.jl b/src/Audio911.jl
index ab579e4..e8fb808 100644
--- a/src/Audio911.jl
+++ b/src/Audio911.jl
@@ -65,4 +65,6 @@ export extractfeatures
 # modular
 export get_frames, get_frames!, get_stft, get_stft!
 
+export get_frames2, get_stft2
+
 end # module Audio911
diff --git a/src/fft/fft.jl b/src/fft/fft.jl
index 129cbc8..29375fe 100644
--- a/src/fft/fft.jl
+++ b/src/fft/fft.jl
@@ -176,3 +176,121 @@ function get_stft!(a::AudioObj)
 	end
 	 a.data.stft, a.setup.stft_freq = _get_stft(a.data.frames .* a.setup.window, a.setup)
 end
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
+#                                     stft                                     #
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
+function _get_stft2(
+	x::AbstractArray{Float64},
+	sr::Int64;
+	fft_length::Int64,
+	frequency_range::Tuple{Int64, Int64},
+	spectrum_type::Symbol,
+)
+	@assert fft_length >= size(x, 1) "fft_length must be > window length. Got fft_length = $fft_length, window length = $(size(x,1))."
+
+	# ensure x is of length fft_length
+	# if the FFT window is larger than the window, the audio data will be zero-padded to match the size of the FFT window.
+	# this zero-padding in the time domain results in an interpolation in the frequency domain, 
+	# which can provide a more detailed view of the spectral content of the signal.
+	x = size(x, 1) < fft_length ? vcat(x, zeros(eltype(x), fft_length - size(x, 1), size(x, 2))) : x[1:fft_length, :]
+
+	# get fft
+	Y = fft(x, (1,))
+
+	# post process
+	# trim to desired range
+	bin_low = ceil(Int, frequency_range[1] * fft_length / sr + 1)
+	bin_high = floor(Int, frequency_range[2] * fft_length / sr + 1)
+	bins = collect(bin_low:bin_high)
+	y = Y[bins, :]
+
+	# convert to half-sided power or magnitude spectrum
+	spectrum_funcs = Dict(
+		:power => x -> real.(x .* conj.(x)),
+		:magnitude => x -> abs.(x),
+	)
+	# check if spectrum_type is valid
+	@assert haskey(spectrum_funcs, spectrum_type) "Unknown spectrum_type: $spectrum_type."
+
+	y = spectrum_funcs[spectrum_type](y)
+
+	# trim borders
+	# halve the first bin if it's the lowest bin
+	bin_low == 1 && (y[1, :] *= 0.5)
+	# halve the last bin if it's the Nyquist bin and FFT length is even
+	bin_high == fld(fft_length, 2) + 1 && iseven(fft_length) && (y[end, :] *= 0.5)
+
+	# create frequency vector
+	stft_freq = (sr / fft_length) * (bins .- 1)
+	# shift final bin if fftLength is odd and the final range is full to fs/2.
+	if fft_length % 2 != 0 && bin_high == floor(fftLength / 2 + 1)
+		stft_freq[end] = sr * (fft_length - 1) / (2 * fft_length)
+	end
+
+	return y, stft_freq
+end
+
+_get_stft2(x::AbstractArray{Float64}, s::AudioSetup) = _get_stft(
+	x,
+	s.sr,
+	fft_length = s.fft_length,
+	frequency_range = s.frequency_range,
+	spectrum_type = s.spectrum_type,
+)
+
+function get_stft2(
+	x::AbstractArray{<:AbstractFloat},
+	sr::Int64,
+	fft_length::Int64 = sr <= 8000 ? 256 : 512,
+	frequency_range::Tuple{Int64, Int64} = (0, floor(Int, sr / 2)),
+	spectrum_type::Symbol = :power, # :power, :magnitude
+)
+	@assert sr > 0 "Sample rate must be > 0."
+	@assert 0 <= frequency_range[1] < frequency_range[2] <= sr / 2 "Frequency range must be (0, sr/2)."
+
+	stft_spec, stft_freq = _get_stft2(
+		x,
+		sr,
+		fft_length = fft_length,
+		frequency_range = frequency_range,
+		spectrum_type = spectrum_type,
+	)
+end
+
+function get_stft2(
+	x::AbstractVector{<:AbstractFloat},
+	sr::Int64;
+	fft_length::Int64 = sr <= 8000 ? 256 : 512,
+	window_type::Tuple{Symbol, Symbol} = (:hann, :periodic),
+	window_length::Int64 = fft_length,
+	overlap_length::Int64 = round(Int, fft_length / 2),
+	frequency_range::Tuple{Int64, Int64} = (0, floor(Int, sr / 2)),
+	spectrum_type::Symbol = :power, # :power, :magnitude
+)
+	@assert sr > 0 "Sample rate must be > 0."
+	@assert 0 <= frequency_range[1] < frequency_range[2] <= sr / 2 "Frequency range must be (0, sr/2)."
+	@assert 0 < overlap_length < window_length "Overlap length must be < window length."
+
+	frames = _get_frames2(
+		eltype(x) == Float64 ? x : Float64.(x),
+		window_type = window_type,
+		window_length = window_length,
+		overlap_length = overlap_length,
+	)
+
+	stft_spec, stft_freq = _get_stft2(
+		frames .* window,
+		sr,
+		fft_length = fft_length,
+		frequency_range = frequency_range,
+		spectrum_type = spectrum_type,
+	)
+end
+
+function get_stft2!(a::AudioObj)
+	if isempty(a.data.frames)
+		a.data.frames, a.setup.window = _get_frames(a.data.x, a.setup)
+	end
+	 a.data.stft, a.setup.stft_freq = _get_stft(a.data.frames .* a.setup.window, a.setup)
+end
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diff --git a/src/utils/histogram.jl b/src/utils/histogram.jl
index a7d74ad..f108306 100644
--- a/src/utils/histogram.jl
+++ b/src/utils/histogram.jl
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ end
 function get_histcounts(
 	x::AbstractVector{Float64};
 	nbins::Union{Int64, Nothing} = nothing,
-	# binwidth::Union{Int64, Float64, Nothing} = nothing,
+	binwidth::Union{Int64, Float64, Nothing} = nothing,
 	norm::Symbol = :none,
 	allow_nan = :false,
 )
diff --git a/src/utils/speech_detector.jl b/src/utils/speech_detector.jl
index 28bebda..0020c01 100644
--- a/src/utils/speech_detector.jl
+++ b/src/utils/speech_detector.jl
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function get_threshs_from_feature(
 	hist_bins = max(10, hist_bins)
 
 	m_feature = mean(feature)
-	n_feature, edges_feature = histcounts(feature, hist_bins)
+	n_feature, edges_feature = get_histcounts(feature, nbins=hist_bins)
 
 	# working with spectral spread
 	if type == :specspread
diff --git a/src/windowing/windowing.jl b/src/windowing/windowing.jl
index 6339751..d55d0c2 100644
--- a/src/windowing/windowing.jl
+++ b/src/windowing/windowing.jl
@@ -123,3 +123,40 @@ function get_frames(
 end
 
 get_frames!(a::AudioObj; kwargs...) = a.data.frames, a.setup.window = get_frames(a.data.x; kwargs...)
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
+#                                   windowing                                  #
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
+function _get_frames2(
+	x::AbstractVector{Float64};
+	window_type::Tuple{Symbol, Symbol},
+	window_length::Int64,
+	overlap_length::Int64,
+)
+	frames = buffer(x, window_length, window_length - overlap_length)
+	window, _ = gencoswin(window_type[1], window_length, window_type[2])
+
+	return frames .* window
+end
+
+function _get_frames2(x::AbstractVector{Float64}, s::AudioSetup)
+	_get_frames2(x, window_type = s.window_type, window_length = s.window_length, overlap_length = s.overlap_length)
+end
+
+function get_frames2(
+	x::AbstractVector{<:AbstractFloat},
+	window_type::Tuple{Symbol, Symbol} = (:hann, :periodic),
+	window_length::Int64 = 256,
+	overlap_length::Int64 = 128,
+)
+	@assert 0 < overlap_length < window_length "Overlap length must be < window length."
+
+	frames = _get_frames2(
+		eltype(x) == Float64 ? x : Float64.(x),
+		window_type = window_type,
+		window_length = window_length,
+		overlap_length = overlap_length,
+	)
+end
+
+get_frames2!(a::AudioObj; kwargs...) = a.data.frames, a.setup.window = get_frames2(a.data.x; kwargs...)
diff --git a/test/features_extraction.jl b/test/features_extraction.jl
index 38c8361..18dad2f 100644
--- a/test/features_extraction.jl
+++ b/test/features_extraction.jl
@@ -201,3 +201,8 @@ audio_6 = audio_obj(x, sr)
 get_frames!(audio_6)
 get_stft!(audio_6)
 display(audio_6.data.stft)
+
+################
+framest = get_frames2(x)
+stft1, stft_freq1 = get_stft2(framest, sr)
+fft22 = get_features(x, sr, :fft)
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