Split speech audio file on words in python

Question

I feel like this is a fairly common problem but I haven\'t yet found a suitable answer. I have many audio files of human speech that I would like to break on words, which ca

Answer 1

pyAudioAnalysis can segment an audio file if the words are clearly separated (this is rarely the case in natural speech). The package is relatively easy to use:

python pyAudioAnalysis/pyAudioAnalysis/audioAnalysis.py silenceRemoval -i SPEECH_AUDIO_FILE_TO_SPLIT.mp3 --smoothing 1.0 --weight 0.3

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