sounddevice

Play and Record Sound with Python

sounddevice Permissive license MIT Active ★ 1,265 v0.5.5 released 2026-01-23

Install

sounddevice on PyPI

pip

pip install sounddevice

uv

uv add sounddevice

poetry

poetry add sounddevice

Package facts

License	MIT (permissive)
Python support	supports the current Python release (>=3.7)
Install friction	low — pure-Python wheel
Runtime dependencies	1 — cffi
Maintenance	actively maintained — 202 days since the last release
Last repo commit	2026-07-24
First released	2015-06-20
Popularity	one of the top 1,000 most-downloaded packages on PyPI (30-day window, as of 2026-08-13)
Known vulnerabilities	none known (OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-13)

Evidence: sounddevice-0.5.5-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: sound, audio, PortAudio, play, record, playrec

Operating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About sounddevice

from the package's own PyPI description — quoted content, verbatim

Play and Record Sound with Python

This Python_ module provides bindings for the PortAudio_ library and a few convenience functions to play and record NumPy_ arrays containing audio signals.

The sounddevice module is available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Documentation: https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/

Source code repository and issue tracker: https://github.com/spatialaudio/python-sounddevice/

License: MIT -- see the file LICENSE for details.

.. _Python: https://www.python.org/ .. _PortAudio: http://www.portaudio.com/ .. _NumPy: https://numpy.org/

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