audio 1.5.0

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Audio
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The `audio` package exists to simplify the installation of the following packages:

- `audio.bitstream`,
- `audio.coders`,
- `audio.filters`,
- `audio.fourier`,
- `audio.frames`,
- `audio.index`,
- `audio.io`,
- `audio.lp`,
- `audio.quantizers`,
- `audio.shrink`,
- `audio.wave`.

The easy way to install it is to use the [pip] package manager:

$ sudo pip install --upgrade audio

Use the same command to update all packages to their latest stable release.

Follow the instructions below if `pip` is not available on your system.

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Most of the dependencies of these packages are automatically managed, but
some dependencies still need to be manually installed beforehand:

1. **The `pip` package installer.**
[Installation instructions](https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html)
for all platforms.

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

[pip]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/index.html

2. **[NumPy] -- Numerical Python.**
Unless you know what you are doing, use existing binary packages.

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-numpy

[Numpy]: http://www.numpy.org/

3. **[PyAudio] -- Python bindings for PortAudio.**
Refer to [PyAudio] for general installation instructions.

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio

[PyAudio]: http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/

4. **[NLTK] and [TIMIT] -- Natural Language Toolkit & Acoustic-Phonetic Speech Corpus**

Detailled NLTK installation instructions are available [here][NLTK-install].
TIMIT is an extra corpus that be installed separately, see [here][NLTK-install-data].

On Ubuntu, install NLTK with:

$ sudo apt-get install python-nltk

and then the TIMIT corpus with:

$ python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('timit')"

[NLTK]: http://www.nltk.org/
[TIMIT]: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S1
[NLTK-install]: http://www.nltk.org/install.html
[NLTK-install-data]: http://www.nltk.org/data.html