Creating .wav file from bytes
Solution 1
You can simply write the data in response
to a file:
with open('myfile.wav', mode='bx') as f:
f.write(response)
If you want to access the audio data as a NumPy array without writing it to a file first, you can do this with the soundfile module like this:
import io
import soundfile as sf
data, samplerate = sf.read(io.BytesIO(response))
See also this example: https://pysoundfile.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/#virtual-io
Solution 2
AudioSegment.from_raw() also will work while you have a continues stream of bytes:
import io
from pydub import AudioSegment
current_data is defined as the stream of bytes that you receive
s = io.BytesIO(current_data)
audio = AudioSegment.from_raw(s, sample_width, frame_rate, channels).export(filename, format='wav')
Solution 3
To add wave file header to raw audio bytes (extracted from wave library):
import struct
def write_header(_bytes, _nchannels, _sampwidth, _framerate):
WAVE_FORMAT_PCM = 0x0001
initlength = len(_bytes)
bytes_to_add = b'RIFF'
_nframes = initlength // (_nchannels * _sampwidth)
_datalength = _nframes * _nchannels * _sampwidth
bytes_to_add += struct.pack('<L4s4sLHHLLHH4s',
36 + _datalength, b'WAVE', b'fmt ', 16,
WAVE_FORMAT_PCM, _nchannels, _framerate,
_nchannels * _framerate * _sampwidth,
_nchannels * _sampwidth,
_sampwidth * 8, b'data')
bytes_to_add += struct.pack('<L', _datalength)
return bytes_to_add + _bytes
Harry Stuart
Updated on June 09, 2022Comments
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Harry Stuart almost 2 years
I am reading bytes from wav audio downloaded from a URL. I would like to "reconstruct" these bytes into a .wav file. I have attempted the code below, but the resulting file is pretty much static. For example, when I download audio of myself speaking, the .wav file produced is static only, but I can hear slight alterations/distortions when I know the audio should be playing my voice. What am I doing wrong?
from pprint import pprint import scipy.io.wavfile import numpy #download a wav audio recording from a url >>>response = client.get_recording(r"someurl.com") >>>pprint(response) (b'RIFFv\xfc\x03\x00WAVEfmt \x10\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x80>\x00\x00' ... b'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff' ... b'\xea\xff\xfd\xff\x10\x00\x0c\x00\xf0\xff\x06\x00\x10\x00\x06\x00' ...) >>>a=bytearray(response) >>>pprint(a) bytearray(b'RIFFv\xfc\x03\x00WAVEfmt \x10\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00' b'\x80>\x00\x00\x00}\x00\x00\x02\x00\x10\x00LISTJ\x00\x00\x00INFOINAM' b'0\x00\x00\x00Conference d95ac842-08b7-4380-83ec-85ac6428cc41\x00' b'IART\x06\x00\x00\x00Nexmo\x00data\x00\xfc\x03\x00\xff\xff' b'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff' ... b'\x12\x00\xf6\xff\t\x00\xed\xff\xf6\xff\xfc\xff\xea\xff\xfd\xff' ...) >>>b = numpy.array(a, dtype=numpy.int16) >>>pprint(b) array([ 82, 73, 70, ..., 255, 248, 255], dtype=int16) >>>scipy.io.wavfile.write(r"C:\Users\somefolder\newwavfile.wav", 16000, b)
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Jose Ramon over 5 yearsI am trying to do a similar task. Therefore, I tried the perform solution and I am receiving the following: RuntimeError: Error opening <_io.BytesIO object at 0x000001E251444410>: File contains data in an unknown format.
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Matthias over 5 yearsDoes the data have a known format? Does it work if you write it to a file? Is it probably raw data?
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Jose Ramon over 5 yearsYes they are raw data. Is there a way to handle them as in the case of the .wav file?
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Matthias over 5 yearsYes, you simply have to specify
format
(='RAW'
),subtype
,channels
andsamplerate
explicitly. See pysoundfile.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/#raw-files.