parselmouth.PraatError: Not an audio file.

[hackedbyxx]

sound = parselmouth.Sound(tmp.name)
parselmouth.PraatError: Not an audio file.

some .m4a audio file can play normaly,but can't read from parselmouth directly, it must be converted to get correct sound

[YannickJadoul]

Can it be read by Praat itself? If not, that's why.

If that's the issue, you can read read in the audio file with some other Python library (I've used SoundFile in the past), convert the values to floats between -1 and 1 (if SoundFile reads integer values), and construct a parselmouth.Sound object with those.

[YannickJadoul]

See e.g. here: https://groups.google.com/g/parselmouth/c/l9pzddg7xZI

[hackedbyxx]

See e.g. here: https://groups.google.com/g/parselmouth/c/l9pzddg7xZI

thanks, i've tried it,but it seems not useful than pydub's AudioSegment, and i try catch exception,so when parselmouth cant's read the file i convert it, but unfortunally it's depend on ffmpeg