[SciPy-User] Playing numpy array over speakers

Todd toddrjen at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 06:10:35 EDT 2015


Thanks, that would be useful.  It appears PyAudio is the closest to what I
need.  So seeing how to translate numpy data into PyAudio data would be
useful.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Hjalmar Turesson <hturesson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a little function that plays back numpy arrays using PyAudio. I
> think PyAudio is pretty platform independent (but it takes a bit of
> installing). My code is not perfect, but it is simple and works ok. Want it?
>
> Hjalmar
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2015 9:51 PM, "Kiko" <kikocorreoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2015-03-24 21:39 GMT+01:00 Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Is anyone aware of a well-maintained, simple, cross-platform python
>> package that can play a numpy array as sound over speakers?
>> >>
>> >> I am aware of https://wiki.python.org/moin/Audio/.  However, in all
>> the cases there, as far as I can find they either do not support numpy
>> arrays, are not cross-platform, cannot playback sound at all, or are
>> unmaintained.  There is also PySoundCard, which would do what I need but
>> also appears to be unmaintained (no release in over a year, and no commits
>> in 5 months, no release with serious bugfixes mentioned in commits).
>> >
>> >
>> > Could this be useful for your use case?
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/2.x/examples/Interactive%20Widgets/Beat%20Frequencies.ipynb
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I am really looking for a way
>> to play audio as part of a script.  Your link would certainly work for
>> playing back sound in an interactive manner in a notebook. However, it is
>> not really useful as part general-purpose script or function,  or when
>> control of the playback is needed. Thank you, though, that is certainly
>> very useful in many situations.
>>
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