Downsampling wav audio file

python audio wav wave downsampling
d3cr1pt0r picture d3cr1pt0r · Jun 3, 2015 · Viewed 38.3k times · Source

I have to downsample a wav file from 44100Hz to 16000Hz without using any external Python libraries, so preferably wave and/or audioop. I tried just changing the wav files framerate to 16000 by using setframerate function but that just slows down the entire recording. How can I just downsample the audio file to 16kHz and maintain the same length of the audio?

Answer

wafflecat picture wafflecat · Mar 18, 2018

You can use Librosa's load() function,

import librosa    
y, s = librosa.load('test.wav', sr=8000) # Downsample 44.1kHz to 8kHz

The extra effort to install Librosa is probably worth the peace of mind.

Pro-tip: when installing Librosa on Anaconda, you need to install ffmpeg as well, so

pip install librosa
conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

This saves you the NoBackendError() error.

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