Playing and Recording Sound in Python

Joe Tatusko 16 Lessons 40m
basics python

In this course, you’ll learn how to play and record sound in Python using some of the most popular audio libraries. You’ll learn about the most straightforward methods for playing and recording sound first, and then you’ll learn about some libraries that offer some more functionality in exchange for a few extra lines of code.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:

Play MP3 and WAV files, as well as a range of other audio formats
Play NumPy and Python arrays containing sound
Record sound using Python
Save your recordings or audio files in a range of different file formats

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Playing and Recording Sound in Python

16 Lessons 40m

1. Playing and Recording Sound in Python (Overview) 00:36

2. Playing Sound in Python 00:42

3. playsound 02:11

4. simpleaudio 05:52

5. winsound 01:44

6. python-sounddevice (Part 1) 02:43

7. pydub (Part 1) 03:37

8. pyaudio (Part 1) 05:32

9. Recording Sound in Python 00:21

10. python-sounddevice (Part 2) 03:03

11. pyaudio (Part 2) 05:18

12. Saving and Converting Sound in Python 00:28

13. wavio 02:06

14. soundfile 01:45

15. pydub (Part 2) 01:41

16. Playing and Recording Sound in Python (Summary) 02:52

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About Joe Tatusko

Joe is a manufacturing engineer turned Pythonista with interests in data wrangling and visualization.

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