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Exercise

Turning it down... then up

Speech recognition works best on clean, audible speech. If your audio files are too quiet or too loud, it can hinder transcription.

In this exercise, you'll see how to make an AudioSegment quieter or louder.

Since the play() function won't play your changes in the DataCamp classroom.

The baseline audio file, volume_adjusted.wav can be heard here.

Instructions 1/2

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    • Import volume_adjusted.wav and lower its volume by 60 dB and save it to a new variable quiet_volume_adjusted.
  • 2
    • Import the target audio file, increase its volume by 15 dB and save it to the variable louder_volume_adjusted.