Setting the development environment

1. Installing and setting up the python virtual environment.
2. Installing the necessary python modules.

1. Installing and setting up the python virtual environment.

We use the following commands to setup virtualenv on our linux operating system.
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install python3-virtualenv

Now we create a new python3 virtual enviroment named voice-comp.
$ virtualenv voice-comp

Activate the virtual voice-comp environment.
$ source voice-comp/bin/activate

2. Installing necessary python modules

pydub - pip install pydub
wave - pip install wave
librosa - pip install librosa, pip install numba==0.48
scipy - pip install scipy
soundfile - pip install soundfile