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!wget http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2014-12-02_2358380582496563/people/women/arrete_toute_de_suite.wav

--2014-12-08 16:44:54--  http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2014-12-02_2358380582496563/people/women/arrete_toute_de_suite.wav
Resolving www.wavsource.com (www.wavsource.com)... 50.6.138.194
Connecting to www.wavsource.com (www.wavsource.com)|50.6.138.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2956 (2.9K) [audio/x-wav]
Saving to: ‘arrete_toute_de_suite.wav’

100%[======================================>] 2,956       --.-K/s   in 0.02s   

2014-12-08 16:44:54 (153 KB/s) - ‘arrete_toute_de_suite.wav’ saved [2956/2956]
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from IPython.display import Audio
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Audio("arrete_toute_de_suite.wav")
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import scipy.io.wavfile as wav
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rate,sig=wav.read("arrete_toute_de_suite.wav")

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/io/wavfile.py:42: WavFileWarning: Unknown wave file format
  warnings.warn("Unknown wave file format", WavFileWarning)

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-81a61ef88efe> in <module>()
----> 1 rate,sig=wav.read("arrete_toute_de_suite.wav")

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/io/wavfile.pyc in read(filename, mmap)
    164                 _skip_unknown_chunk(fid)
    165             elif chunk_id == b'data':
--> 166                 data = _read_data_chunk(fid, comp, noc, bits, mmap=mmap)
    167             elif chunk_id == b'LIST':
    168                 # Someday this could be handled properly but for now skip it

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/io/wavfile.pyc in _read_data_chunk(fid, comp, noc, bits, mmap)
     69             dtype += 'f%d' % bytes
     70     if not mmap:
---> 71         data = numpy.fromstring(fid.read(size), dtype=dtype)
     72     else:
     73         start = fid.tell()

TypeError: data type "<i0" not understood