Bootcamp Audio Day

import numpy as np

from scikits.audiolab import wavread

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############ EXTRACT AUDIO FROM FILE ############

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x, fs, enc = wavread("viola.wav")

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#### CALCULATE RMS OF EACH AUDIO BLOCK ####

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hop_size = 2048                             # set hop size

frame_size = 4096                           # set frame size

frame = np.zeros(frame_size)                # initialise frame with zeros

window = np.hanning(frame_size)             # create window of the same length as the hop size

# create empty numpy array to hold our 

rms = np.array([])

# run through signal frame by frame 

for n in range(0,x.size-hop_size,hop_size):

    # extract a segment of length hop_size

    buffer = x[n:n+hop_size]                               

    # add new segment to frame, shifting back samples of frame

    frame = np.append(frame[hop_size:frame_size],buffer)  

    # calculate RMS

    rms_val = np.sqrt(np.power(frame,2).mean())

    # add amplitude to our numpy array

    rms = np.append(rms,rms_val)

print rms