python - PyAudio Input overflowed

Question

I'm trying to make real-time plotting sound in python. I need to get chunks from my microphone.

Using PyAudio, try to use

import pyaudio
import wave
import sys

chunk = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 1
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "output.wav"

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

stream = p.open(format = FORMAT,
                channels = CHANNELS,
                rate = RATE,
                input = True,
                frames_per_buffer = chunk)

print "* recording"
all = []
for i in range(0, RATE / chunk * RECORD_SECONDS):
    data = stream.read(chunk)
    all.append(data)
print "* done recording"

stream.close()
p.terminate()

After, I getting the followin error:

* recording
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gg.py", line 23, in <module>
    data = stream.read(chunk)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyaudio.py", line 564, in read
    return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames)
IOError: [Errno Input overflowed] -9981

I can't understand this buffer. I want, to use blocking IO mode, so if chunks not available, i want to wait for those chunks. But when I creating try except segment or sleep(0.1), i hear clicks, so this is not what i want.

Please suggest the best solution for my ploblem?

Answer 1

pyaudio.Stream.read() has a keyword parameter exception_on_overflow, set this to False.

For your sample code that would look like:

import pyaudio
import wave
import sys

chunk = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 1
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "output.wav"

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

stream = p.open(format = FORMAT,
                channels = CHANNELS,
                rate = RATE,
                input = True,
                frames_per_buffer = chunk)

print "* recording"
all = []
for i in range(0, RATE / chunk * RECORD_SECONDS):
    data = stream.read(chunk, exception_on_overflow = False)
    all.append(data)
print "* done recording"

stream.close()
p.terminate()

See the PyAudio documentation for more details.