I went ahead and asked a free AI how to use sox and played audio to trigger a script. Probably won’t be 100% accurate but maybe send you down the right path. Good luck.
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Install ‘sox’ if you haven’t already. You can use the package manager of your Linux distribution to install it.
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Open a terminal and use the ‘rec’ command from ‘sox’ to continuously listen to the audio input:
sox -d -t .wav - silence 1 0.1 3% 1 1.0 3%This command will listen for audio and create a .wav file when it detects sound.
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Write a script that will be triggered when a sound is detected. For example, you can create a script called “myscript.sh” with the following content:
#!/bin/bash echo "Sound detected! Running my script." # Add your desired actions here -
Make the script executable by running the following command in the terminal:
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Use the ‘rec’ command along with the ‘play’ command from ‘sox’ to continuously listen for sound and execute your script when sound is detected:
sox -d -t .wav - silence 1 0.1 3% 1 1.0 3% | while read -r; do ./myscript.sh; doneThis command will continuously listen for sound and execute your script each time sound is detected.
Remember to customize the script “myscript.sh” with your desired actions.
I haven’t seen these mentioned but they are kinda niche though. I use them for work more than personal usecase but maybe someone else finds them useful.
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