Microphone access in Python

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  •  10-07-2019
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Question

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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Solution

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.

OTHER TIPS

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.

You might try SWMixer.

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