Speaking Clock Detection

This tool can be used to detect on which channel a speaking clock is present. It only works on stereo audio files, where either the left or right channel contain only the speaking clock. This tool has only been tested with the French official Speaking Clock.

Installation

pip3 install speaking-clock-detection

Usage

The help is available with the following command:

speaking_clock_detection --help

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -m MEDIA, --media MEDIA
                        full path to media to analyze
  -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir TMPDIR
                        Temporary directory used to store intermediate files. Should be a fast access
                        directory such as Ram Disk or SSD hard drive. Default value: /dev/shm (linux ram
                        disk)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output file for the result. Default value: /dev/stdout.
  -f FFMPEG, --ffmpeg FFMPEG
                        Full path to ffmpeg binary. If not provided, this will used default binary
                        installed on the system. This program has been tested with ffmpeg version
                        2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Example

The tool can be used like this:

speaking_clock_detection \
	--media /file/to/detect/speaking_clock.wav

It will output one of the three following values:

• SPEAKING_CLOCK_TRACK followed by the channel track id (typically 0 or 1)
• SPEAKING_CLOCK_NONE if no speaking clock has been detected
• SPEAKING_CLOCK_MULTIPLE if multiple speaking clocks have been detected (this is usually an error)