Scala script to solve this Quora question: http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-convert-a-wav-file-to-character-ASCII-file-Say-we-have-5-bit-converter-Every-5-bit-to-be-used-to-identify-a-character

BinaryCraziness.scala

import scala.io.Source

/* Boilerplate to make Java not throw Exceptions on non UTF-8 characters */
import java.nio.charset.CodingErrorAction
import scala.io.Codec
implicit val codec = Codec("UTF-8")
codec.onMalformedInput(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE)
codec.onUnmappableCharacter(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE)

/* Put your WAV file here. You might want to slice it; a full WAV file will exceed JVM memory limit */
val filename = "test.wav" // TODO change me to an actual file path

/* A 5-bit charset to interpret the bit stream */
val charset = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. !,?:"

/* Parse the file */
val hiddenMessage = ((Source.fromFile(filename) map(_.toInt) flatMap(_.toString) flatMap (Integer.toBinaryString(_)) toList) grouped(5) toList) map (_.mkString) map (Integer.parseInt(_, 2)) map (charset(_)) mkString

println(hiddenMessage)