diff --git a/pipe/pipe.py b/pipe/pipe.py
index 8ba723f..751babd 100644
--- a/pipe/pipe.py
+++ b/pipe/pipe.py
@@ -11,10 +11,29 @@
 
 def image_pipe(imagepath: Path, namepattern: str, stacksize: int)
                 -> np.ndarray:
-    images = np.zeros((stacksize, 800,800)
+    images = np.zeros((stacksize, 800,800))
     for i in range(stacksize):
         images[i,:,:] = cv.imread(imagepath/namepattern.format(i), -1)
 
     return images
 
+def spectrogram_pipe(specpath: Path, namepattern: str, freq_samples: int)
+                    -> np.ndarray:
+    """
+    Loads spectrograms for each stack iteration from an hdf5 data file.
+    Args:
+        specpath (Path): Path to the spectrogram files.
+        namepattern (str): Name pattern for the spectrogram files.
+        stacksize (int): Number of spectrograms in the stack.
+        freq_samples (int): Number of frequency samples in each spectrogram.
+
+    Returns:
+        spectrograms (np.ndarray): Stack of spectrograms (2D array).
+    """
+
+    with h5py.File(specpath/namepattern.format(i), 'r') as f:
+        spectrograms = f['spectrogram'][:]
+
+    return spectrograms
+
 # EOF