def _spectrogram_mp_helper(ooi_hyd_data_obj, win, L, avg_time, overlap, verbose, average_type):
    """
    Helper function for compute_spectrogram_mp
    """
    ooi_hyd_data_obj.compute_spectrogram(win, L, avg_time, overlap, verbose, average_type)
    return ooi_hyd_data_obj.spectrogram