Delay Sum Beamforming in Python - python

I am trying to implement a simple delay-sum beamformer using a 4 Microphone Array. I am using MATLAB at the moment, which has an inbuilt Signal Processing toolkit that is quite helpful. I was wondering if there are such tools in Python. For starters, i want to know how to get an audio signal from a microphone in real time and have a continuous plot as a preliminary output.

use pyAudio you can get the audio signal from mic in real time.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/
to plot it, you can use matplotlib or Chaco:
Chaco has an example that use pyAudio and plot the spectrum of the audio signal:
https://github.com/enthought/chaco/blob/master/examples/demo/advanced/spectrum.py

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I have just started to work on data in the form of audio. I am using librosa as a tool. My project requires me to extract features like:
Total duration of the audio
Minimum Intensity of the audio signal
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Rate of speaking
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I know that this job can be performed using softwares like Praat, but I need to do it in python.
Praat can be used for spectral analysis (spectrograms), pitch
analysis, formant analysis, intensity analysis, jitter, shimmer, and
voice breaks.

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Profiling Python - Streaming Audio and spectrum

I'm trying to modify this example: https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/browser/Chaco/trunk/examples/advanced/spectrum.py. Unfortunately I have not been able to get it to scale. If I double the sampling rate, the graph lags from the sound input. I'd like to find out which part of the code is the bottleneck. I tried to use cProfile but didn't investigate very far.
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FFT for Spectrograms in Python

How would I go about using Python to read the frequency peaks from a WAV PCM file and then be able to generate an image of it, for spectogram analysis?
I'm trying to make a program that allows you to read any audio file, converting it to WAV PCM, and then finding the peaks and frequency cutoffs.
Python's wave library will let you import the audio. After that, you can use numpy to take an FFT of the audio.
Then, matplotlib makes very nice charts and graphs - absolutely comparable to MATLAB.
It's old as dirt, but this article would probably get you started on almost exactly the problem you're describing (article in Python of course).
Loading WAV files is easy using audiolab:
from audiolab import wavread
signal, fs, enc = wavread('test.wav')
or for reading any general audio format and converting to WAV:
from audiolab import Sndfile
sound_file = Sndfile('test.w64', 'r')
signal = wave_file.read_frames(wave_file.nframes)
The spectrogram is built into PyLab:
from pylab import *
specgram(signal)
Specifically, it's part of matplotlib. Here's a better example.
from pylab import *
specgram(signal)
is the easiest. Also quite handy in this context:
subplot
But be warned: Matplotlib is very slow but it creates beautiful images. You should not use it for demanding animation, even less when you are dealing with 3D
If you need to convert from PCM format to integers, you'll want to use struct.unpack.

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