Ruby audio API (hopefully in a new thread, sorry for the duplication)

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Hi All,

I'm looking for a Ruby audio API. Is there a good one already available or is anyone in the process of working on one? I'd like one that is easy to install and manage, such as a gem with no or automatic dependencies. Also, I'd like a liberal license, at least as liberal as LGPL or better yet BSD because I'd like to eventually give away the tools I'm working on with the fewest possible restrictions.

If I can't find one I'm considering writing one using something like PortAudio. Would that make sense? If I were to do that does anyone have any suggestions for how it should be done to make it work best with Ruby?

Thanks,
Joe

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Let's start with this... what do you want it to do? Do you want to
decode audio files? Encode them? Play back audio? Synthesis? Record?

What are you trying to accomplish?

Ben

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008, Joe Wlfel wrote:

I'm looking for a Ruby audio API. Is there a good one already available or
is anyone in the process of working on one? I'd like one that is easy to
install and manage, such as a gem with no or automatic dependencies. Also,
I'd like a liberal license, at least as liberal as LGPL or better yet BSD
because I'd like to eventually give away the tools I'm working on with the
fewest possible restrictions.

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I'd like to use it for capturing audio for speech recognition. Accurate control of the microphone is important. It needs to be clear when the mic is on and when it's off. Storing audio in raw formats is ok, but it would be preferable to read and write in a lossless compressed format.

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On 13 oct. 08, at 16:15, Ben Bleything wrote:

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008, Joe Wlfel wrote:

I'm looking for a Ruby audio API. Is there a good one already available or
is anyone in the process of working on one? I'd like one that is easy to
install and manage, such as a gem with no or automatic dependencies. Also,
I'd like a liberal license, at least as liberal as LGPL or better yet BSD
because I'd like to eventually give away the tools I'm working on with the
fewest possible restrictions.

Let's start with this... what do you want it to do? Do you want to
decode audio files? Encode them? Play back audio? Synthesis? Record?

What are you trying to accomplish?

Ben