How to convert a numpy array waveform into a wav file-like object?

Question

I want to convert a numpy array waveform into a wav-like object so that I can upload it to S3 without having to save the waveform to file locally. Imagine I have a numpy array waveform, y,

y, sr = librosa.load('something.wav', sr = 44100)

How can I convert this numpy array, y into a wav file-like object to upload to S3 using boto3's upload_fileobj method?

According to the boto3 docs, the file-like object must have the properties:

A file-like object to upload. At a minimum, it must implement the read method, and must return bytes.

This is how I would like to upload the file-like object:

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('mybucket')

# with open('filename', 'rb') as data:
#    bucket.upload_fileobj(data, 'mykey')
bucket.upload_fileobj(wav_object, 'something.wav')

TLDR:

I want a function that converts a numpy array into a wav-like object that implements the read method and returns bytes.

Does this answer your question? Writing WAV file using Python, Numpy array and WAVE module — tevemadar
– tevemadar, Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 8:45
Python has a built-in docs.python.org/3/library/wave.html module. — tevemadar
– tevemadar, Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 8:46
@tevemadar that link doesn't answer my question because my starting point is a numpy array - not a wave file. I want to go from np array --> wav-like object — piccolo
– piccolo, Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 8:51
You'll have to scroll to the second answer, stackoverflow.com/a/64376061/7916438 — tevemadar
– tevemadar, Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 8:53
@tevemadar the second answer has with wave.open("sound1.wav", "w") as f: but I don't want to write to a file locally , I just want to return a file-like object. — piccolo
– piccolo, Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 8:56

MSS · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-28 13:29:09Z

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You can try like this:

import io 
from scipy.io.wavfile import write
import boto3

bytes_wav = bytes()
wav_object = io.BytesIO(bytes_wav)
write(wav_object, sr, y) # y is your numpy array


s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('mybucket')

bucket.upload_fileobj(wav_object, 'something.wav')

answered Jun 28, 2022 at 13:29

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piccolo Over a year ago

Oooh let me try this and get back to you if it works

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