Import an audio file with PyDub
PyDub
's AudioSegment
class makes it easy to import and manipulate audio files with Python.
In this exercise, we'll import an audio file of interest by creating an instance of AudioSegment
.
To import an audio file, you can use the from_file()
function on AudioSegment
and pass it your target audio file's pathname as a string. The format
parameter gives you an option to specify the format of your audio file, however, this is optional as PyDub
will automatically infer it.
PyDub
works with .wav
files without any extra dependencies but for other file types like .mp3
, you'll need to install ffmpeg.
A sample audio file has been setup as wav_file.wav
, you can listen to it here.
This is a part of the course
“Spoken Language Processing in Python”
Exercise instructions
- Import
AudioSegment
frompydub
. - Call the
from_file
method and pass it the audio file pathname.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import AudioSegment from Pydub
from pydub import ____
# Create an AudioSegment instance
wav_file = AudioSegment.____(file=____,
format="wav")
# Check the type
print(type(wav_file))