PyAudio provides Python bindings for PortAudio, the cross-platform audio I/O library. With PyAudio, you can easily use Python to play and record audio on a variety of platforms.
PyAudio is still super-duper alpha quality. It has run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS X—but it could use more testing.
PyAudio is inspired by:
Thanks again to Bastian Bechtold for his help converting the documentation for use with Sphinx! In addition, thanks to John K. Luebs for the callback fix.
Many thanks to Bastian Bechtold and Bob Jamison for their contributions! Without their patches and Bastian's careful review, this release would still be far away. Also, great thanks to Danilo J. S. Bellini for reporting bugs.
Note: As of this update, PyAudio is compatible with Python 2.6, Python 2.7, and Python 3.2. For Python installations older than 2.6, use PyAudio 0.2.4.
The current version is PyAudio v0.2.7, with binaries and source below. Older versions are also available.
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PyAudio for Python 3.3
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PyAudio for Python 3.2
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PyAudio for Python 2.7
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PyAudio for Python 2.6
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PyAudio for Mac OS X
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% dpkg -i python{,3}-pyaudio_0.2.7-1_{i386,amd64}.deb
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PyAudio for Python 2 (i386)
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PyAudio for Python 3 (i386)
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PyAudio for Python 3 (amd64)
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PyAudio tarball
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Git:
Additionally, you can browse the PyAudio API documentation. PyAudio roughly mirrors the PortAudio v19 API 2.0.
If you're building PyAudio from source, here are compilation hints for building PyAudio on GNU/Linux, Windows (cygwin or Win32), and Mac OS X.
Note that the PyAudio source distribution contains a set of demo scripts. Here's a selection from that set:
"""PyAudio Example: Play a WAVE file."""
import pyaudio
import wave
import sys
CHUNK = 1024
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Plays a wave file.\n\nUsage: %s filename.wav" % sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(-1)
wf = wave.open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
channels=wf.getnchannels(),
rate=wf.getframerate(),
output=True)
data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)
while data != '':
stream.write(data)
data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
"""PyAudio example: Record a few seconds of audio and save to a WAVE file."""
import pyaudio
import wave
CHUNK = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "output.wav"
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.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("* done recording")
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
wf.setframerate(RATE)
wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
wf.close()
"""
PyAudio Example: Make a wire between input and output (i.e., record a
few samples and play them back immediately).
"""
import pyaudio
CHUNK = 1024
WIDTH = 2
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(WIDTH),
channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE,
input=True,
output=True,
frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)
print("* recording")
for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
data = stream.read(CHUNK)
stream.write(data, CHUNK)
print("* done")
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
"""PyAudio Example: Play a wave file (callback version)"""
import pyaudio
import wave
import time
import sys
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Plays a wave file.\n\nUsage: %s filename.wav" % sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(-1)
wf = wave.open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
def callback(in_data, frame_count, time_info, status):
data = wf.readframes(frame_count)
return (data, pyaudio.paContinue)
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
channels=wf.getnchannels(),
rate=wf.getframerate(),
output=True,
stream_callback=callback)
stream.start_stream()
while stream.is_active():
time.sleep(0.1)
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
wf.close()
p.terminate()
"""
PyAudio Example: Make a wire between input and output (i.e., record a
few samples and play them back immediately).
This is the callback (non-blocking) version.
"""
import pyaudio
import time
WIDTH = 2
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
def callback(in_data, frame_count, time_info, status):
return (in_data, pyaudio.paContinue)
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(WIDTH),
channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE,
input=True,
output=True,
stream_callback=callback)
stream.start_stream()
while stream.is_active():
time.sleep(0.1)
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
"""PyAudio Example: Mac OS X-only: Play a wave file with channel maps."""
import pyaudio
import wave
import sys
chunk = 1024
PyAudio = pyaudio.PyAudio
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Plays a wave file.\n\nUsage: %s filename.wav" % sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(-1)
wf = wave.open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
p = PyAudio()
# standard L-R stereo
# channel_map = (0, 1)
# reverse: R-L stereo
# channel_map = (1, 0)
# no audio
# channel_map = (-1, -1)
# left channel audio --> left speaker; no right channel
# channel_map = (0, -1)
# right channel audio --> right speaker; no left channel
# channel_map = (-1, 1)
# left channel audio --> right speaker
# channel_map = (-1, 0)
# right channel audio --> left speaker
channel_map = (1, -1)
# etc...
try:
stream_info = pyaudio.PaMacCoreStreamInfo(
flags=pyaudio.PaMacCoreStreamInfo.paMacCorePlayNice, # default
channel_map=channel_map)
except AttributeError:
print("Sorry, couldn't find PaMacCoreStreamInfo. Make sure that "
"you're running on Mac OS X.")
sys.exit(-1)
print("Stream Info Flags:", stream_info.get_flags())
print("Stream Info Channel Map:", stream_info.get_channel_map())
# open stream
stream = p.open(
format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
channels=wf.getnchannels(),
rate=wf.getframerate(),
output=True,
output_host_api_specific_stream_info=stream_info)
# read data
data = wf.readframes(chunk)
# play stream
while data != '':
stream.write(data)
data = wf.readframes(chunk)
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Hubert Pham
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The development of PyAudio was funded in part by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and T-Party.
Many thanks to Andrew Baldwin, Alex ThreeD, Timothée Lecomte, Frank Samuelson, Matthieu Brucher, Chris Stawarz, Barry Walker, Bob Jamison, Danilo J. S. Bellini, Bastian Bechtold, and Christoph Gohlke for their much appreciated suggestions and patches—as well as to others who have written to say hello!
Special thanks to Justin Mazzola Paluska and Felipe Sateler for Debian/Ubuntu packaging help.