Synchronously transcribe a Cloud Storage file

Perform a synchronous transcription on an audio file stored in Cloud Storage

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Go

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 Go 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. 


func recognizeGCS(w io.Writer, gcsURI string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := speech.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Send the request with the URI (gs://...)
	// and sample rate information to be transcripted.
	resp, err := client.Recognize(ctx, &speechpb.RecognizeRequest{
		Config: &speechpb.RecognitionConfig{
			Encoding:        speechpb.RecognitionConfig_LINEAR16,
			SampleRateHertz: 16000,
			LanguageCode:    "en-US",
		},
		Audio: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio{
			AudioSource: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio_Uri{Uri: gcsURI},
		},
	})

	// Print the results.
	for _, result := range resp.Results {
		for _, alt := range result.Alternatives {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "\"%v\" (confidence=%3f)\n", alt.Transcript, alt.Confidence)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

Java

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 Java 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. 

/**
 * Performs speech recognition on remote FLAC file and prints the transcription.
 *
 * @param gcsUri the path to the remote FLAC audio file to transcribe.
 */
public static void syncRecognizeGcs(String gcsUri) throws Exception {
  // Instantiates a client with GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
  try (SpeechClient speech = SpeechClient.create()) {
    // Builds the request for remote FLAC file
    RecognitionConfig config =
        RecognitionConfig.newBuilder()
            .setEncoding(AudioEncoding.FLAC)
            .setLanguageCode("en-US")
            .setSampleRateHertz(16000)
            .build();
    RecognitionAudio audio = RecognitionAudio.newBuilder().setUri(gcsUri).build();

    // Use blocking call for getting audio transcript
    RecognizeResponse response = speech.recognize(config, audio);
    List<SpeechRecognitionResult> results = response.getResultsList();

    for (SpeechRecognitionResult result : results) {
      // 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);
      System.out.printf("Transcription: %s%n", alternative.getTranscript());
    }
  }
}

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

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const gcsUri = 'gs://my-bucket/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 = {
  encoding: encoding,
  sampleRateHertz: sampleRateHertz,
  languageCode: languageCode,
};
const audio = {
  uri: gcsUri,
};

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

// Detects speech in the audio file
const [response] = await client.recognize(request);
const transcription = response.results
  .map(result => result.alternatives[0].transcript)
  .join('\n');
console.log('Transcription: ', transcription);

PHP

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. 

use Google\Cloud\Speech\V1\SpeechClient;
use Google\Cloud\Speech\V1\RecognitionAudio;
use Google\Cloud\Speech\V1\RecognitionConfig;
use Google\Cloud\Speech\V1\RecognitionConfig\AudioEncoding;

/**
 * @param string $uri The Cloud Storage object to transcribe (gs://your-bucket-name/your-object-name)
 */
function transcribe_sync_gcs(string $uri)
{
    // change these variables if necessary
    $encoding = AudioEncoding::LINEAR16;
    $sampleRateHertz = 32000;
    $languageCode = 'en-US';

    // set string as audio content
    $audio = (new RecognitionAudio())
        ->setUri($uri);

    // set config
    $config = (new RecognitionConfig())
        ->setEncoding($encoding)
        ->setSampleRateHertz($sampleRateHertz)
        ->setLanguageCode($languageCode);

    // create the speech client
    $client = new SpeechClient();

    try {
        $response = $client->recognize($config, $audio);
        foreach ($response->getResults() as $result) {
            $alternatives = $result->getAlternatives();
            $mostLikely = $alternatives[0];
            $transcript = $mostLikely->getTranscript();
            $confidence = $mostLikely->getConfidence();
            printf('Transcript: %s' . PHP_EOL, $transcript);
            printf('Confidence: %s' . PHP_EOL, $confidence);
        }
    } finally {
        $client->close();
    }
}

Python

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 Python 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. 

def transcribe_gcs(gcs_uri: str) -> speech.RecognizeResponse:
    """Transcribes the audio file specified by the gcs_uri."""
    from google.cloud import speech

    client = speech.SpeechClient()

    audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(uri=gcs_uri)
    config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
        encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.FLAC,
        sample_rate_hertz=16000,
        language_code="en-US",
    )

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

    # Each result is for a consecutive portion of the audio. Iterate through
    # them to get the transcripts for the entire audio file.
    for result in response.results:
        # The first alternative is the most likely one for this portion.
        print(f"Transcript: {result.alternatives[0].transcript}")

    return response

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. 

# 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: 16_000,
           language_code:     "en-US" }
audio  = { uri: storage_path }

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

results = response.results

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

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