Audio

The audio package exists to simplify the installation of the following packages:

• audio.bitstream,
• audio.coders,
• audio.filters,
• audio.fourier,
• audio.frames,
• audio.index,
• audio.io,
• audio.lp,
• audio.quantizers,
• audio.shrink,
• audio.wave.

The easy way to install it is to use the pip package manager:

$ sudo pip install --upgrade audio

Use the same command to update all packages to their latest stable release.

Follow the instructions below if pip is not available on your system.

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Most of the dependencies of these packages are automatically managed, but some dependencies still need to be manually installed beforehand:

1. The pip package installer. Installation instructions for all platforms.

   On Ubuntu:

   $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
   

2. NumPy -- Numerical Python. Unless you know what you are doing, use existing binary packages.

   On Ubuntu:

   $ sudo apt-get install python-numpy
   

3. PyAudio -- Python bindings for PortAudio. Refer to PyAudio for general installation instructions.

   On Ubuntu:

   $ sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio
   

4. NLTK and TIMIT -- Natural Language Toolkit & Acoustic-Phonetic Speech Corpus

   Detailled NLTK installation instructions are available here. TIMIT is an extra corpus that be installed separately, see here.

   On Ubuntu, install NLTK with:

   $ sudo apt-get install python-nltk
   

   and then the TIMIT corpus with:

   $ python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('timit')"