Day 19: Local Transcription w .NET

Processing voice data on the cloud comes at a cost

Historically, there’s been several roadblocks to local transcription. Not anymore with Picovoice Leopard Speech-to-Text SDK for cross-platform .NET.

1- Install Leopard NuGet Package

dotnet add package Leopard

2- Get a Picovoice AccessKey
You should know how to do by now. However, it's your first time, then sign up for the Picovoice Console and get your AccessKey for free.

3- Code

using Pv;
string accessKey = "${ACCESS_KEY}"
Leopard leopard = Leopard.Create(accessKey);

You can

1. pass an audio file to Leopard OR
2. record audio and pass in the raw data.

Let's pass it from the microphone:

short[] audio = //.. audio obtained from microphone
string transcript = leopard.Process(audio);

Looking for more:
Open-source demo code
Leopard GitHub repository
Speech-to-text Benchmark