plotwave 0.1.0

Interactive audio and waveform plotting for notebooks and browsers.

plotwave

Interactive Plotly waveforms with synchronized audio playback

Live interactive demo

Click anywhere in the waveform to hear the audio while inspecting it visually.
Overlay multiple audio tracks or add additional signals (labels, predictions, segmentation, scores) on top of the waveform.

Designed for Jupyter notebooks, plotwave can also be exported to HTML, making it easy to share interactive audio visualizations or log them in tools like MLflow for experiment analysis.

Install

uv add plotwave

or

pip install plotwave

Smallest useful example

import soundfile as sf
import plotwave

wav, sr = sf.read("wave.wav", always_2d=False)

plotwave.plot(wav, sr=sr, name="voice")

soundfile is only used here as a convenient audio loader. plotwave itself only depends on numpy.

Audio + curve

env = np.abs(wav)

plotwave.plot(
    [
        plotwave.audio(wav, sr, name="audio", color="#2563eb"),
        plotwave.series(env, name="envelope", color="#f97316", fill="tozeroy"),
    ],
    layout={"title": {"text": "Audio + envelope"}, "height": 520},
)

If series(..., time=None) is plotted next to audio, plotwave infers its time axis automatically when the audio timing is unambiguous.

Segments

plotwave.plot(
    [
        plotwave.audio(wav, sr, name="audio"),
        plotwave.segments(
            [
                {"start": 0.0, "end": 0.7, "label": "Bm"},
                {"start": 1.0, "end": 1.6, "label": "G"},
            ],
            name="Pred",
            lane="top",
            color_map={"Bm": "#2563eb", "G": "#16a34a"},
        ),
    ]
)

segments(...) adds:

• colored background blocks
• label boxes
• hoverable segment names
• top/bottom lanes for comparisons like prediction vs ground truth

Export

plot = plotwave.plot(wav, sr=sr)
plot.save("wave.html")
html = plot.html()

API

Public API:

• plotwave.plot(...)
• plotwave.audio(...)
• plotwave.series(...)
• plotwave.segments(...)
• plotwave.Plot

See examples/getting_started.ipynb for a full walkthrough.

Developer workflow: DEVELOPERS.md

To refresh the GitHub Pages demo locally:

uv run python scripts/build_pages_demo.py