Can I access a users microphone in Python?
Sorry I forgot not everyone is a mind reader: Windows at minimum XP but Vista support would be VERY good.
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What OS is this for? Does it have to be cross-platform? – Serafina Brocious Oct 11 '08 at 07:09
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2Useful answers in this more recent question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1936828/how-get-sound-input-from-microphone-in-python-and-process-it-on-the-fly – Craig McQueen Dec 20 '09 at 23:46
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I got the job done with pyaudio
It comes with a binary installer for windows and there's even an example on how to record through the microphone and save to a wave file. Nice! I used it on Windows XP, not sure how it will do on Vista though, sorry.
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1"Note that PyAudio currently only supports blocking-mode audio I/O. PyAudio is still super-duper alpha quality." from website – Dustin Getz Jul 23 '09 at 18:20
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Best way to go about it would be to use the ctypes library and use WinMM from that. mixerOpen will open a microphone device and you can read the data easily from there. Should be very straightforward.
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3Do you think you can provide some sample code for this? I can call mixerGetNumDevs but i'm not sure how to get from there to mixerOpen or for reading levels. TIA – Jared Apr 10 '09 at 04:51
