Apparently Audacity supports automation from a variety of different languages[1]. Though I’ve not tried myself so I couldn’t comment how good it is. However you

Apparently Audacity supports automation from a variety of different languages[1]. Though I’ve not tried myself so I couldn’t comment how good it is. However you’re right that if you’re writing software that depends on such a tool it’s better to have something you can compile into your software (or at least an .so / .dll you can redistribute). [1] https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Automation https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Automation