Synchronously recognize words

Detects speech in the audio file.

Code sample

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Speech-to-Text, see Speech-to-Text client libraries. For more information, see the Speech-to-Text Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Speech-to-Text, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const fs = require('fs');
const speech = require('@google-cloud/speech');

// Creates a client
const client = new speech.SpeechClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const filename = 'Local path to audio file, e.g. /path/to/audio.raw';
// const encoding = 'Encoding of the audio file, e.g. LINEAR16';
// const sampleRateHertz = 16000;
// const languageCode = 'BCP-47 language code, e.g. en-US';

const config = {
  enableWordTimeOffsets: true,
  encoding: encoding,
  sampleRateHertz: sampleRateHertz,
  languageCode: languageCode,
};
const audio = {
  content: fs.readFileSync(filename).toString('base64'),
};

const request = {
  config: config,
  audio: audio,
};

// Detects speech in the audio file
const [response] = await client.recognize(request);
response.results.forEach(result => {
  console.log('Transcription: ', result.alternatives[0].transcript);
  result.alternatives[0].words.forEach(wordInfo => {
    // NOTE: If you have a time offset exceeding 2^32 seconds, use the
    // wordInfo.{x}Time.seconds.high to calculate seconds.
    const startSecs =
      `${wordInfo.startTime.seconds}` +
      '.' +
      wordInfo.startTime.nanos / 100000000;
    const endSecs =
      `${wordInfo.endTime.seconds}` +
      '.' +
      wordInfo.endTime.nanos / 100000000;
    console.log(`Word: ${wordInfo.word}`);
    console.log(`\t ${startSecs} secs - ${endSecs} secs`);
  });
});

Ruby

To learn how to install and use the client library for Speech-to-Text, see Speech-to-Text client libraries.

To authenticate to Speech-to-Text, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

# audio_file_path = "Path to file on which to perform speech recognition"

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech version: :v1

audio_file = File.binread audio_file_path

config = { encoding:                 :LINEAR16,
           sample_rate_hertz:        16_000,
           language_code:            "en-US",
           enable_word_time_offsets: true }
audio  = { content: audio_file }

response = speech.recognize config: config, audio: audio

results = response.results

alternatives = results.first.alternatives
alternatives.each do |alternative|
  puts "Transcription: #{alternative.transcript}"

  alternative.words.each do |word|
    start_time = word.start_time.seconds + (word.start_time.nanos / 1_000_000_000.0)
    end_time   = word.end_time.seconds + (word.end_time.nanos / 1_000_000_000.0)

    puts "Word: #{word.word} #{start_time} #{end_time}"
  end
end

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