Transcribe Word Time Offsets

This sample demonstrates how to transcribe audio with word time offsets using the Speech-to-Text API.

Code sample

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.

import os

from google.cloud.speech_v2 import SpeechClient
from google.cloud.speech_v2.types import cloud_speech

PROJECT_ID = os.getenv("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT")


def transcribe_word_time_offsets_v2(
    audio_file: str,
) -> cloud_speech.RecognizeResponse:
    """Transcribes an audio file into text using with word time offsets.
    Args:
        audio_file (str): Path to the local audio file to be transcribed.
            Example: "resources/audio.wav"
    Returns:
        cloud_speech.RecognizeResponse: The response containing the transcription results
            with word time offsets.
    """
    # Instantiates a client
    client = SpeechClient()

    # Reads a file as bytes
    with open(audio_file, "rb") as file:
        audio_content = file.read()

    config = cloud_speech.RecognitionConfig(
        auto_decoding_config=cloud_speech.AutoDetectDecodingConfig(),
        language_codes=["en-US"],
        model="long",
        features=cloud_speech.RecognitionFeatures(
            enable_word_time_offsets=True,
        ),
    )

    request = cloud_speech.RecognizeRequest(
        recognizer=f"projects/{PROJECT_ID}/locations/global/recognizers/_",
        config=config,
        content=audio_content,
    )

    # Transcribes the audio into text
    response = client.recognize(request=request)

    for result in response.results:
        print(f"Transcript: {result.alternatives[0].transcript}")

    return response

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