audio 1.5.0

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