#!/usr/bin/python

import pyaudio # requires portaudio installed

RECORD_SECONDS = 5
CHANNELS = 1
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt32
RATE = 44100
CHUNK = 1024
FRAMES_IN_WAVEFILE = int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

stream = p.open(format=FORMAT,
                channels=CHANNELS,
                rate=RATE,
                input=True,
                frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)

while True:
    print("* start recording")
    frames = []
    while len(frames) < FRAMES_IN_WAVEFILE:
        data = stream.read(CHUNK)
        frames.append(data)
    print("* done recording")

stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()