High-Level Audio Editing Language?

[Arc Riley]

You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special
language?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:

> 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
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