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scipy.io.wavfile.read

scipy.io.wavfile.read(file, mmap=False)

Return the sample rate (in samples/sec) and data from a WAV file

Parameters :

file : file

Input wav file.

mmap : bool, optional

Whether to read data as memory mapped. (Default: False)

New in version 0.12.0.

Returns :

rate : int

Sample rate of wav file

data : numpy array

Data read from wav file

Notes

• The file can be an open file or a filename.
• The returned sample rate is a Python integer
• The data is returned as a numpy array with a data-type determined from the file.