ViSound 0.1.4

A library to sonify images using Python

ViSound

Library to convert images to sounds.

Refer to the wiki here

Introduction

This is just a standalone library for use in other programs that can make use of ViSound capabilities. On it's own ViSound doesn't do anything. You have to use it in some way to get the output and play the audio yourself.

Installation

ViSound can be installed using pip:

pip install visound

Features

• Sonify images in a number of different ways
• Output the audio to a file or stdout
• Apply effects

Traversal Modes

You can traverse the given input images in different ways to get different audio output. The following modes are currently supported.

• Left To Right
• Right to Left
• Top to Bottom
• Bottom to Top
• Circle Inward
• Circle Outward

Usage

visound <path to an image> --play --verbose

Dependencies

• numpy
• opencv-python
• sounddevice
• soundfile

TODO

• Traversal
  • Left to Right
  • Right to left
  • Top to bottom
  • Bottom to top
  • Circular inward
  • Circular outward
• Apply effects to the output audio
• Allow for custom pixel to frequency mapping
• CLI client
• Machine learning to apply effects and custom image traversal