I'm having some problems and I cannot seem to get my head around the concept.
What I am trying to do is this:
Have the microphone "listen" for voiced (above a particular threshold) and then start recording to a .wav file until the person has stopped speaking / the signal is no longer there. For example:
begin:
listen() -> nothing is being said
listen() -> nothing is being said
listen() -> VOICED - _BEGIN RECORDING_
listen() -> VOICED - _BEGIN RECORDING_
listen() -> UNVOICED - _END RECORDING_
end
I want to do this also using "threading" so a thread would be created that "listens" to the file constantly, and, another thread will begin when there is voiced data.. But, I cannot for the life of me figure out how I should go about it.. Here is my code so far:
import wave
import sys
import threading
from array import array
from sys import byteorder
try:
import pyaudio
CHECK_PYLIB = True
except ImportError:
CHECK_PYLIB = False
class Audio:
_chunk = 0.0
_format = 0.0
_channels = 0.0
_rate = 0.0
record_for = 0.0
stream = None
p = None
sample_width = None
THRESHOLD = 500
# initial constructor to accept params
def __init__(self, chunk, format, channels, rate):
#### set data-types
self._chunk = chunk
self.format = pyaudio.paInt16,
self.channels = channels
self.rate = rate
self.p = pyaudio.PyAudio();
def open(self):
# print "opened"
self.stream = self.p.open(format=pyaudio.paInt16,
channels=2,
rate=44100,
input=True,
frames_per_buffer=1024);
return True
def record(self):
# create a new instance/thread to record the sound
threading.Thread(target=self.listen).start();
def is_silence(snd_data):
return max(snd_data) < THRESHOLD
def listen(self):
r = array('h')
while True:
snd_data = array('h', self.stream.read(self._chunk))
if byteorder == 'big':
snd_data.byteswap()
r.extend(snd_data)
return sample_width, r
I'm guessing that I could record "5" second blocks, and, then if the block is deemed as "voiced" then it the thread should be started until all the voice data has been captured. However, because at current it's at while True:
i don't want to capture all of the audio up until there are voiced commands, so e.g. "no voice", "no voice", "voice", "voice", "no voice", "no voice" i just want the "voice" inside the wav file.. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you
EDIT:
import wave
import sys
import time
import threading
from array import array
from sys import byteorder
from Queue import Queue, Full
import pyaudio
CHUNK_SIZE = 1024
MIN_VOLUME = 500
BUF_MAX_SIZE = 1024 * 10
process_g = 0
def main():
stopped = threading.Event()
q = Queue(maxsize=int(round(BUF_MAX_SIZE / CHUNK_SIZE)))
listen_t = threading.Thread(target=listen, args=(stopped, q))
listen_t.start()
process_g = threading.Thread(target=process, args=(stopped, q))
process_g.start()
try:
while True:
listen_t.join(0.1)
process_g.join(0.1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
stopped.set()
listen_t.join()
process_g.join()
def process(stopped, q):
while True:
if stopped.wait(timeout = 0):
break
print "I'm processing.."
time.sleep(300)
def listen(stopped, q):
stream = pyaudio.PyAudio().open(
format = pyaudio.paInt16,
channels = 2,
rate = 44100,
input = True,
frames_per_buffer = 1024
)
while True:
if stopped and stopped.wait(timeout=0):
break
try:
print process_g
for i in range(0, int(44100 / 1024 * 5)):
data_chunk = array('h', stream.read(CHUNK_SIZE))
vol = max(data_chunk)
if(vol >= MIN_VOLUME):
print "WORDS.."
else:
print "Nothing.."
except Full:
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Now, after every 5 seconds, I need the "process" function to execute, and then process the data (time.delay(10) whilst it does this and then start the recording back up..
Look here:
https://github.com/jeysonmc/python-google-speech-scripts/blob/master/stt_google.py
It even converts Wav to flac and sends it to the google Speech api , just delete the stt_google_wav function if you dont need it ;)