4.1 `audio` -- An audio related services package

Availability: S60.

The audio module enables recording and playing audio files and access to device text-to-speech engine. The audio module supports all the formats supported by the device, typically: WAV, AMR, MIDI, MP3, AAC, and Real Audio^4.1. For more information on the audio types supported by different devices, see the Forum Nokia Web site [5] and S60 Platform Web site [6].

The following Sound class static methods are defined in the audio module:

Sound.open( filename): Returns a new initialized Sound object with the named file opened. Note that filename should be a full Unicode path name and must also include the file extension, for example u'c:\\foo.wav'.

The following data items for state information are available in audio:

ENotReady: The Sound object has been constructed but no audio file is open.

EOpen: An audio file is open but no playing or recording operation is in progress.

EPlaying: An audio file is playing.

ERecording: An audio file is being recorded.

The following data item is provided for continuous playback of an audio file:

KMdaRepeatForever: Possible value for times parameter in open.

The following method is available in the audio module:

say( text, prefix=audio.TTS_PREFIX): Passes the text to the device text-to-speech engine. The default prefix is the text-to-speech prefix "(tts)".
text should be either Unicode or a UTF-8 encoded plain string. The speech synthesizer pronounces the text according to the current device language.

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... Audio ^4.1: The dynamically loaded audio codec for the sound file is based on the MIME-type information inside the audio file and file extension.

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4.1 audio -- An audio related services package

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4.1 `audio` -- An audio related services package