Transcribing Audio in Python

Dependencies

• build-essential
• portaudio19-dev
• pyaudio

1. sudo apt-get install build-essential
2. sudo apt install portaudio19-dev
3. pip install pyaudio

Example

import speech_recognition as sr

r = sr.Recognizer()

while True:
    # Initialize the microphone
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        print("Speak!!: ")
        audio = r.listen(source)

    try:
        # do the transcription
        transcription = r.recognize_google(audio, language='en-US')
        print(transcription)

    except sr.UnknownValueError:
        print("Didn't understand the audio")

    except sr.RequestError:
        print("request error")