diff --git a/audio/file.wav b/audio/file.wav
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diff --git a/audio/record.py b/audio/record.py
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+import pyaudio
+import wave
+import time
+
+time.sleep(1)
+
+FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
+CHANNELS = 2
+RATE = 44100
+CHUNK = 1024
+RECORD_SECONDS = 10
+WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "file.wav"
+ 
+audio = pyaudio.PyAudio()
+ 
+# start Recording
+stream = audio.open(format=FORMAT, channels=CHANNELS,
+                rate=RATE, input=True,
+                frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)
+print "recording..."
+frames = []
+ 
+for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
+    data = stream.read(CHUNK)
+    frames.append(data)
+print "finished recording"
+ 
+ 
+# stop Recording
+stream.stop_stream()
+stream.close()
+audio.terminate()
+ 
+waveFile = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
+waveFile.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
+waveFile.setsampwidth(audio.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
+waveFile.setframerate(RATE)
+waveFile.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
+waveFile.close()
diff --git a/audio/split.py b/audio/split.py
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+from pydub import AudioSegment
+from pydub.silence import split_on_silence
+
+def split_audio(file):
+  sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3(file)
+  chunks = split_on_silence(sound, 
+      # must be silent for at least half a second
+      min_silence_len=1000,
+
+      # consider it silent if quieter than -16 dBFS
+      silence_thresh=-25,
+
+      # keep 200 ms of leading/trailing silence
+      keep_silence=1000
+  )
+
+  for i, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
+      chunk.export("./chunk{0}.mp3".format(i), format="mp3")
+      print i
+
+split_audio('file.wav')