i am trying to record voice using python.
i tried to use the pyaudio module it saved a wav file on my computer but recorded a static voice.
any suggestions?
import pyaudio
import wave
CHUNK = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "voice.wav"
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open(format=FORMAT,
channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE,
input=True,
frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)
print("* recording")
frames = []
for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
data = stream.read(CHUNK)
frames.append(data)
print("* done recording")
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
wf.setframerate(RATE)
wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
wf.close()
First, make sure your microphone is actually connected, on and not muted.
You are not providing a device index when opening the stream. This means that you will get the device that PyAudio considers the default. Which might not be your microphone.
Use the get_device_count
and get_device_info_by_index
methods of the PyAudio
object in an interactive Python session. Print the dictionaries that get_device_info_by_index
returns to determine which device index represents your microphone, and provide that index number as the input_device_index
parameter when opening the stream.
Your code works in my environment: Win7 and Python3.4 - I get my voice recorded using my Laptops's microphone.
Maybe your microphone's recording level is set too low. Or is it muted or disabled?
below code will list indexes of the available recording devices,then user can give a specific index as the input,code will start recording via given recording device index.
import pyaudio
import wave
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 1
RATE = 44100
CHUNK = 512
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "recordedFile.wav"
device_index = 2
audio = pyaudio.PyAudio()
print("----------------------record device list---------------------")
info = audio.get_host_api_info_by_index(0)
numdevices = info.get('deviceCount')
for i in range(0, numdevices):
if (audio.get_device_info_by_host_api_device_index(0, i).get('maxInputChannels')) > 0:
print "Input Device id ", i, " - ", audio.get_device_info_by_host_api_device_index(0, i).get('name')
print("-------------------------------------------------------------")
index = (input())
print("recording via index "+str(index))
stream = audio.open(format=FORMAT, channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE, input=True,input_device_index = index,
frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)
print ("recording started")
Recordframes = []
for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
data = stream.read(CHUNK)
Recordframes.append(data)
print ("recording stopped")
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
audio.terminate()
waveFile = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
waveFile.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
waveFile.setsampwidth(audio.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
waveFile.setframerate(RATE)
waveFile.writeframes(b''.join(Recordframes))
waveFile.close()
Make sure your Microphone is connected to the computer. It can be identified using below code.
import speech_recognition as sr
for index, name in enumerate(sr.Microphone.list_microphone_names()):
print("Microphone with name \"{1}\" found for microphone(device_index{0})".format(index, name))