Play and Record Sound with Python

This Python module provides bindings for the PortAudio library and a few convenience functions to play and record NumPy arrays containing audio signals.

The sounddevice module is available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Documentation:

https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/

Source code repository and issue tracker:

https://github.com/spatialaudio/python-sounddevice/

License:

MIT – see the file LICENSE for details.

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• Installation
• Usage
  • Playback
  • Recording
  • Simultaneous Playback and Recording
  • Device Selection
  • Callback Streams
  • Blocking Read/Write Streams
• Example Programs
  • Play a Sound File
  • Play a Very Long Sound File
  • Play a Very Long Sound File without Using NumPy
  • Play a Web Stream
  • Play a Sine Signal
  • Input to Output Pass-Through
  • Plot Microphone Signal(s) in Real-Time
  • Real-Time Text-Mode Spectrogram
  • Recording with Arbitrary Duration
  • Using a stream in an asyncio coroutine
  • Creating an asyncio generator for audio blocks
• Contributing
  • Reporting Problems
  • Development Installation
  • Building the Documentation
• API Documentation
  • Convenience Functions using NumPy Arrays
  • Checking Available Hardware
  • Module-wide Default Settings
  • Platform-specific Settings
  • Streams using NumPy Arrays
  • Raw Streams
  • Miscellaneous
  • Expert Mode
• Version History

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