Play an audio file with PyDub

If you're working with audio files, chances are you want to listen to them.

PyDub's playback module provides a function called play() which can be passed an AudioSegment. Running the play() function with an AudioSegment passed in will play the AudioSegment out loud.

This can be helpful to check the quality of your audio files and assess any changes you need to make.

In this exercise you'll see how simple it is to use the play() function.

Remember: to use the play() function, you'll need simpleaudio or pyaudio installed for .wav files and ffmpeg for other kinds of files.

This exercise is part of the course

Spoken Language Processing in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import play from the pydub.playback module.
Call play() whilst passing it the wav_file AudioSegment.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Import AudioSegment and play
from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.playback import ____

# Create an AudioSegment instance
wav_file = AudioSegment.from_file(file="wav_file.wav", 
                                  format="wav")

# Play the audio file
____(____)

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