"""PyAudio example: Record a few seconds of audio and save to a WAVE file.""" import pyaudio import wave CHUNK = 1024 FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16 CHANNELS = 2 RATE = 44100 RECORD_SECONDS = 5 WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "output.wav" p = pyaudio.PyAudio() device_idx = 0; for i in range (0, p.get_device_count()): print(p.get_device_info_by_index(i)) if p.get_device_info_by_index(i)['name'] == 'Built-in Input': device_idx = i print i stream = p.open(format=FORMAT, channels=CHANNELS, rate=RATE, input=True, input_device_index=device_idx, frames_per_buffer=CHUNK) print("* recording") frames = [] for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)): data = stream.read(CHUNK) frames.append(data) print("* done recording") stream.stop_stream() stream.close() p.terminate() wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb') wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS) wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT)) wf.setframerate(RATE) wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames)) wf.close()