Create a Voice Recorder using Python - GeeksforGeeks

09 Sep, 2020
Python can be used to perform a variety of tasks. One of them is creating a voice recorder. We can use python’s sounddevice module to record and play audio. This module along with the wavio or the scipy module provides the way to save recorded audio.
sounddevice: This module provides functions to play and record NumPy arrays containing audio signals. Let’s install it by running the following command:
$ pip3 install sounddevice

We can use either wavio and scipy to save the recorded audio in file format. We will see both of them here.
To install wavio:
$ pip3 install wavio

To install scipy:
$ pip3 install scipy

Now, we are done with installing the required modules. So, let’s write the code.
First, import the required libraries.
# import required libraries
import sounddevice as sd
from scipy.io.wavfile import write
import wavio as wv
Now, before starting the recorder, we have to declare a few variables. The first one is the sampling frequency of the audio (in most cases this will be 44100 or 48000 frames per second) and the second is recording duration. We have to specify the duration in seconds so that it stops recording after that duration.
So, let’s declare them too.
# Sampling frequency
freq = 44100

# Recording duration
duration = 5
Now, we are ready to start the recorder. It will create a NumPy array of the recorded audio.
# Start recorder with the given values of 
# duration and sample frequency
recording = sd.rec(int(duration * freq), 
                   samplerate=freq, channels=2)

# Record audio for the given number of seconds
sd.wait()
Now, we are done with recording the audio. So, let’s save it. To save the audio file, we can either use the scipy module or the wavio module. Let’s go through them one by one.
We will use the write function from scipy.io.wavfile to convert the NumPy array to an audio file.
# This will convert the NumPy array to an audio
# file with the given sampling frequency
write("recording0.wav", freq, recording)
We can also use the write function from the wavio library.
# Convert the NumPy array to audio file
wv.write("recording1.wav", recording, freq, sampwidth=2)
Complete Code:
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# import required librariesimport sounddevice as sdfrom scipy.io.wavfile import writeimport wavio as wv  # Sampling frequencyfreq = 44100  # Recording durationduration = 5  # Start recorder with the given values # of duration and sample frequencyrecording = sd.rec(int(duration * freq),                    samplerate=freq, channels=2)  # Record audio for the given number of secondssd.wait()  # This will convert the NumPy array to an audio# file with the given sampling frequencywrite("recording0.wav", freq, recording)  # Convert the NumPy array to audio filewv.write("recording1.wav", recording, freq, sampwidth=2)
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