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Python in Audio Research

Start Python Audio in 3 Minutes

pip install soundfile
pip install numpy

Graphical Dev Environments

• Atom + Plugins
• [Spyder]
• [pyCharm]
• [Eclipse]

Tutorials/Books

• Python Data Science Handbook Excellent Book, look for the Tutorial notebooks
• [http://www.scipy-lectures.org/index.html](Deep Introduction to Numpy and Scipy)

Basic Audio Packages

Read/Write

Do not use scipy.io.wavfile, because it doesn't scale the data to [0, 1] also it doesn't

Courses/Notebooks

• https://github.com/spatialaudio/selected-topics-in-audio-signal-processing-exercises
• [Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox](Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox for Python)
• BrianHears, Auditory Models
• FFT (use scipy.fftpack.fft instead of np.fft)
• pyFFTW3
• pyAV
• Audioread general purpose audio decoder
• NSGT
• MDCT
• STFT
• Gammatone
• Loudness
• (Py)Soundfile
• (Py)Soundcard
• python-sounddevice = another portaudio wrapper
• PyRubberband
• Resampy
• https://github.com/stitchfix/NTFLib
• librosa
• Madmom
• essentia
• VamPy Host
• NUSSL
• Scikit-LEarn
• Keras
• mir_eval
• pyAudioAnalysis Feature Extraction + Classification
• pyYAAFE Python bindings for YAAFE
• PYO C++ lib with python bindings for realtime audio (like supercollider)
• dsdtools
• commonfate
• beta_ntf

Visualisation/Plotting

• matplotlib
• seaborn
• bokeh

Statistics

• Statsmodels
• Scipy.stats

Speed

• Numba
• CFFI
• PyCUDA (FFT)