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Created June 24, 2016 04:17
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Simple script to record sound from the microphone, dependencies: easy_install pyaudio
import pyaudio
import wave
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
CHUNK = 1024
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "file.wav"
audio = pyaudio.PyAudio()
# start Recording
stream = audio.open(format=FORMAT, channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE, input=True,
frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)
print "recording..."
frames = []
for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
data = stream.read(CHUNK)
frames.append(data)
print "finished recording"
# stop Recording
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
audio.terminate()
waveFile = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
waveFile.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
waveFile.setsampwidth(audio.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
waveFile.setframerate(RATE)
waveFile.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
waveFile.close()
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