High-Level Audio Editing Language?

[Bruce Dawson]

Bill Freeman wrote:
>> Bill McGonigle wrote: 
>> 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 the case in point, looking for touch tones, is different.  Touch tones
> are designed to be automatically recognizable.  Especially since Bill knows
> which touch tone he's using, he wouldn't necessarily need an FFT (though it
> may, in practice, be the easiest way to do it, given pre-existing software).
>   

True. My comment was addressing the general lack of scriptable audio
editing tools.
> ...But
> I'd be surprised if there isn't already a suitable software decoder somewhere
> inside asterisk, that you could apply in order to get a time stream, or sample
> numbers, of when touch tone 2 starts and ends in a sample, and then you could
> use sox to carve up the file with your choice of scripting language.
>   

Asterisk definitely has this ability. I'm just not sure where to look in
the source.

--Bruce