speechcapture 0.4.0

An easy to use library for recording and saving speech audio

SpeechCapture

An easy to use library for recording and saving speech audio

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. License
5. Contact
6. Acknowledgments

About the Project

SpeechCapture is a Python library made to simplify the complex process of recording and saving your voice automatically from Python code.

Features

• Automatic stop on silence
• Customizable silence threshold
• Dynamically adjust threshold based on surrounding noise
• Pausing and resuming recording
• Saving audio as .WAV at any time
• Recording in background threads
• Simultaneous recordings
• Stopping at any time

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To use SpeechCapture, you will need the following installed:

• Python 3.8 or higher

Installation

To install, simply run in your terminal:

$ pip install speechcapture

Once you have installed the package, do not forget to import:

import speechcapture

You can now start using SpeechCapture (example usage below)

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PyAudio

If installation of PyAudio, a required dependancy, fails, try running the following commands:

MacOS

$ brew install portaudio
$ pip install pyaudio

Ubuntu/Linux

$ sudo apt install portaudio19-dev
$ pip install pyaudio

Usage

import speechcapture as sc

file_path = 'output.wav'

r = sc.Recorder(file_path)

r.adjust_for_ambient_noise()

r.max_seconds_of_silence = 3

r.record()

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Bilal Darwish - [e-mail]

Source Code and Issues: https://github.com/bdarwish/speechcapture/

Acknowledgments

Dependencies:

• PyAudio
• NumPy