Transcribe a multi-channel file in Cloud Storage

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences.

Transcribe an audio file stored in Cloud Storage that includes more than one channel.

Explore further

For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

Code sample

Java

/**
 * Transcribe a remote audio file with multi-channel recognition
 *
 * @param gcsUri the path to the audio file
 */
public static void transcribeMultiChannelGcs(String gcsUri) throws Exception {

  try (SpeechClient speechClient = SpeechClient.create()) {

    // Configure request to enable multiple channels
    RecognitionConfig config =
        RecognitionConfig.newBuilder()
            .setEncoding(AudioEncoding.LINEAR16)
            .setLanguageCode("en-US")
            .setSampleRateHertz(44100)
            .setAudioChannelCount(2)
            .setEnableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel(true)
            .build();

    // Set the remote path for the audio file
    RecognitionAudio audio = RecognitionAudio.newBuilder().setUri(gcsUri).build();

    // Use non-blocking call for getting file transcription
    OperationFuture<LongRunningRecognizeResponse, LongRunningRecognizeMetadata> response =
        speechClient.longRunningRecognizeAsync(config, audio);

    while (!response.isDone()) {
      System.out.println("Waiting for response...");
      Thread.sleep(10000);
    }
    // Just print the first result here.
    for (SpeechRecognitionResult result : response.get().getResultsList()) {

      // There can be several alternative transcripts for a given chunk of speech. Just use the
      // first (most likely) one here.
      SpeechRecognitionAlternative alternative = result.getAlternativesList().get(0);

      // Print out the result
      System.out.printf("Transcript : %s\n", alternative.getTranscript());
      System.out.printf("Channel Tag : %s\n", result.getChannelTag());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

const speech = require('@google-cloud/speech').v1;

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

const config = {
  encoding: 'LINEAR16',
  languageCode: 'en-US',
  audioChannelCount: 2,
  enableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel: true,
};

const audio = {
  uri: gcsUri,
};

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

const [response] = await client.recognize(request);
const transcription = response.results
  .map(
    result =>
      ` Channel Tag: ${result.channelTag} ${result.alternatives[0].transcript}`
  )
  .join('\n');
console.log(`Transcription: \n${transcription}`);

Python

from google.cloud import speech

client = speech.SpeechClient()

audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(uri=gcs_uri)

config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
    encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
    sample_rate_hertz=44100,
    language_code="en-US",
    audio_channel_count=2,
    enable_separate_recognition_per_channel=True,
)

response = client.recognize(config=config, audio=audio)

for i, result in enumerate(response.results):
    alternative = result.alternatives[0]
    print("-" * 20)
    print("First alternative of result {}".format(i))
    print("Transcript: {}".format(alternative.transcript))
    print("Channel Tag: {}".format(result.channel_tag))

Ruby

# storage_path = "Path to file in Cloud Storage, eg. gs://bucket/audio.raw"

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech

config = {
  encoding:                                :LINEAR16,
  sample_rate_hertz:                       44_100,
  language_code:                           "en-US",
  audio_channel_count:                     2,
  enable_separate_recognition_per_channel: true
}

audio = { uri: storage_path }

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

results = response.results

results.each_with_index do |result, i|
  alternative = result.alternatives.first
  puts "-" * 20
  puts "First alternative of result #{i}"
  puts "Transcript: #{alternative.transcript}"
  puts "Channel Tag: #{result.channel_tag}"
end

What's next

To search and filter code samples for other Google Cloud products, see the Google Cloud sample browser.