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Manipulating multiple audio files with PyDub

You've seen how to convert a single file using PyDub but what if you had a folder with multiple different file types?

For this exercise, we've setup a folder which has .mp3, .m4a and .aac versions of the good-afternoon audio file.

We'll use PyDub to open each of the files and export them as .wav format so they're compatible with speech recognition APIs.

This exercise is part of the course

Spoken Language Processing in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Pass audio_file to the from_file() function.
  • Use export() to export wav_filename with the format ".wav".

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Loop through the files in the folder
for audio_file in folder:
    
	# Create the new .wav filename
    wav_filename = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(audio_file))[0] + ".wav"
        
    # Read audio_file and export it in wav format
    AudioSegment.from_file(____).____(out_f=wav_filename, 
                                      format=____)
        
    print(f"Creating {wav_filename}...")
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