High-Level Audio Editing Language?

[Bruce Dawson]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
> I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list.  I'm curious if  
> anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio editing language.   
> I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings.
>
> For example, I want to take a recorded phone call (that I've made  
> with an asterisk script) to the local movie theater and trim it at  
> the second DTMF tone for '2', so I can e-mail the important part.
>
> I'd like to write something like:
>
>    audiofile = <stdin>
>    start_time = index( audiofile, dtmf(2), 2)
>    newaudiofile = sub( audiofile, start_time, length(audiofile)- 
> start_time )
>    print newaudiofile
>
> Dreaming?
>
> -Bill
>   
Audacity provides the GUI equivalent of that.

Unless you're merging audio tracks, editing audio tends to defy
scripting because you need an "ear" to listen for the pauses, pops and
other cutting/splicing points.

But if you do find one, it would be great to tell everyone of it!

--Bruce