Would you like to experiment with analyzing or manipulating audio with Python? This week on the show, we have Braden Riggs from DolbyIO to discuss extracting audio features and Python libraries for reshaping audio. Braden shares techniques from his recent talk at PyData Global, “Unlocking More From Your Audio Data!”

We share several articles, tutorials, and Python libraries to get you started working with audio. We begin with a quick introduction to audio digitization and feature extraction. After discussing modifying audio files, we share tools and techniques for exploring audio analysis through data science.

Braden talks about speech-to-text conversion, sentiment analysis, and Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). He also shares a valuable collection of audio technology resources for developers.

Course Spotlight: Playing and Recording Sound in Python

In this course, you’ll learn about libraries that can be used for playing and recording sound in Python, such as PyAudio and python-sounddevice. You’ll also see code snippets for playing and recording sound files and arrays, as well as for converting between different sound file formats.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:46 – What is Dolby IO?
00:05:08 – Audio and data science background
00:08:17 – Digital audio basics
00:12:07 – Audio feature extraction
00:18:31 – Sponsor: Snyk - The Big Fix
00:19:17 – PyAudioAnalysis and processing audio files with Python
00:26:16 – Feature extraction and audio analysis talk at PyData Global
00:32:33 – Jupyter notebook of presentation and DolbyIO awesome audio list
00:34:13 – librosa - package for music analysis
00:37:55 – Video Course Spotlight
00:39:11 – Speech to text and NLTK
00:54:28 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
00:55:49 – What do you want to learn next?
00:56:53 – Shout outs and social connections
00:58:04 – Thanks and goodbye

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