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Speech Recognition is an important feature in several applications used such as home automation, artificial intelligence, etc. This article aims to provide an introduction on how to make use of the SpeechRecognition and pyttsx3 library of Python. Installation required:    

• Python Speech Recognition module:    
• PyAudio: Use the following command for linux users   
• Windows users can install pyaudio by executing the following command in a terminal   
• Python pyttsx3 module:    

Speech Input Using a Microphone and Translation of Speech to Text    

• Allow Adjusting for Ambient Noise: Since the surrounding noise varies, we must allow the program a second or too to adjust the energy threshold of recording so it is adjusted according to the external noise level.   
• Speech to text translation: This is done with the help of Google Speech Recognition. This requires an active internet connection to work. However, there are certain offline Recognition systems such as PocketSphinx, but have a very rigorous installation process that requires several dependencies. Google Speech Recognition is one of the easiest to use.   

Translation of Speech to Text: First, we need to import the library and then initialize it using init() function. This function may take 2 arguments.   

• drivername: [Name of available driver] sapi5 on Windows | nsss on MacOS   
• debug: to enable or disable debug output   

After initialization, we will make the program speak the text using say() function.  This method may also take 2 arguments.   

• text: Any text you wish to hear.   
• name: To set a name for this speech. (optional)   

Finally, to run the speech we use runAndWait() All the say() texts won’t be said unless the interpreter encounters runAndWait(). Below is the implementation.  

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Using the Speech-to-Text API with Node.js

1. overview.

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API enables developers to convert audio to text in 120 languages and variants, by applying powerful neural network models in an easy to use API.

In this codelab, you will focus on using the Speech-to-Text API with Node.js. You will learn how to send an audio file in English and other languages to the Cloud Speech-to-Text API for transcription.

What you'll learn

• How to enable the Speech-to-Text API
• How to Authenticate API requests
• How to install the Google Cloud client library for Node.js
• How to transcribe audio files in English
• How to transcribe audio files with word timestamps
• How to transcribe audio files in different languages

What you'll need

• A Google Cloud Platform Project
• A Browser, such Chrome or Firefox
• Familiarity using Javascript/Node.js

How will you use this tutorial?

How would you rate your experience with node.js, how would you rate your experience with using google cloud platform services, 2. setup and requirements, self-paced environment setup.

• Sign in to Cloud Console and create a new project or reuse an existing one. (If you don't already have a Gmail or G Suite account, you must create one .)

Remember the project ID, a unique name across all Google Cloud projects (the name above has already been taken and will not work for you, sorry!). It will be referred to later in this codelab as PROJECT_ID .

• Next, you'll need to enable billing in Cloud Console in order to use Google Cloud resources.

Running through this codelab shouldn't cost much, if anything at all. Be sure to to follow any instructions in the "Cleaning up" section which advises you how to shut down resources so you don't incur billing beyond this tutorial. New users of Google Cloud are eligible for the $300USD Free Trial program.

Start Cloud Shell

While Google Cloud can be operated remotely from your laptop, in this codelab you will be using Google Cloud Shell , a command line environment running in the Cloud.

Activate Cloud Shell

If you've never started Cloud Shell before, you'll be presented with an intermediate screen (below the fold) describing what it is. If that's the case, click Continue (and you won't ever see it again). Here's what that one-time screen looks like:

It should only take a few moments to provision and connect to Cloud Shell.

This virtual machine is loaded with all the development tools you'll need. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs in Google Cloud, greatly enhancing network performance and authentication. Much, if not all, of your work in this codelab can be done with simply a browser or your Chromebook.

Once connected to Cloud Shell, you should see that you are already authenticated and that the project is already set to your project ID.

• Run the following command in Cloud Shell to confirm that you are authenticated:

Command output

If it is not, you can set it with this command:

3. Enable the Speech-to-Text API

Before you can begin using the Speech-to-Text API, you must enable the API. You can enable the API by using the following command in the Cloud Shell:

4. Authenticate API requests

In order to make requests to the Speech-to-Text API, you need to use a Service Account . A Service Account belongs to your project and it is used by the Google Client Node.js library to make Speech-to-Text API requests. Like any other user account, a service account is represented by an email address. In this section, you will use the Cloud SDK to create a service account and then create credentials you will need to authenticate as the service account.

First, set an environment variable with your PROJECT_ID which you will use throughout this codelab, if you are using Cloud Shell this will be set for you:

Next, create a new service account to access the Speech-to-Text API by using:

Next, create credentials that your Node.js code will use to login as your new service account. Create these credentials and save it as a JSON file ~/key.json by using the following command:

Finally, set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable, which is used by the Speech-to-Text API Node.js library, covered in the next step, to find your credentials. The environment variable should be set to the full path of the credentials JSON file you created, by using:

You can read more about authenticating the Speech-to-Text API .

5. Install the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API client library for Node.js

First, create a project that you will use to run this Speech-to-Text API lab, initialize a new Node.js package in a folder of your choice:

NPM asks several questions about the project configuration, such as name and version. For each question, press ENTER to accept the default values. The default entry point is a file named index.js .

Next, install the Google Cloud Speech library to the project:

For more instructions on how to set up a Node.js development for Google Cloud please see the Setup Guide .

Now, you're ready to use Speech-to-Text API!

6. Transcribe Audio Files

In this section, you will transcribe a pre-recorded audio file in English. The audio file is available on Google Cloud Storage.

Navigate to the index.js file inside the and replace the code with the following:

Take a minute or two to study the code and see it is used to transcribe an audio file*.*

The Encoding parameter tells the API which type of audio encoding you're using for the audio file. Flac is the encoding type for .raw files (see the doc for encoding type for more details).

In the RecognitionAudio object, you can pass the API either the uri of our audio file in Cloud Storage or the local file path for the audio file. Here, we're using a Cloud Storage uri.

Run the program:

You should see the following output:

7. Transcribe with word timestamps

Speech-to-Text can detect time offset (timestamp) for the transcribed audio. Time offsets show the beginning and end of each spoken word in the supplied audio. A time offset value represents the amount of time that has elapsed from the beginning of the audio, in increments of 100ms.

Take a minute or two to study the code and see it is used to transcribe an audio file with word timestamps*.* The EnableWordTimeOffsets parameter tells the API to enable time offsets (see the doc for more details).

Run your program again:

8. Transcribe different languages

Speech-to-Text API supports transcription in over 100 languages! You can find a list of supported languages here .

In this section, you will transcribe a pre-recorded audio file in French. The audio file is available on Google Cloud Storage.

Run your program again and you should see the following output:

This is a sentence from a popular French children's tale .

For the full list of supported languages and language codes, see the documentation here .

9. Congratulations!

You learned how to use the Speech-to-Text API using Node.js to perform different kinds of transcription on audio files!

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud Platform account for the resources used in this quickstart:

• Go to the Cloud Platform Console .
• Select the project you want to shut down, then click ‘Delete' at the top: this schedules the project for deletion.
• Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs
• Node.js on Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/
• Google Cloud Node.js client: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-node/

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The Ultimate Guide To Speech Recognition With Python

Table of Contents

How Speech Recognition Works – An Overview

Picking a python speech recognition package, installing speechrecognition, the recognizer class, supported file types, using record() to capture data from a file, capturing segments with offset and duration, the effect of noise on speech recognition, installing pyaudio, the microphone class, using listen() to capture microphone input, handling unrecognizable speech, putting it all together: a “guess the word” game, recap and additional resources, appendix: recognizing speech in languages other than english.

Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: Speech Recognition With Python

Have you ever wondered how to add speech recognition to your Python project? If so, then keep reading! It’s easier than you might think.

Far from a being a fad, the overwhelming success of speech-enabled products like Amazon Alexa has proven that some degree of speech support will be an essential aspect of household tech for the foreseeable future. If you think about it, the reasons why are pretty obvious. Incorporating speech recognition into your Python application offers a level of interactivity and accessibility that few technologies can match.

The accessibility improvements alone are worth considering. Speech recognition allows the elderly and the physically and visually impaired to interact with state-of-the-art products and services quickly and naturally—no GUI needed!

Best of all, including speech recognition in a Python project is really simple. In this guide, you’ll find out how. You’ll learn:

• How speech recognition works,
• What packages are available on PyPI; and
• How to install and use the SpeechRecognition package—a full-featured and easy-to-use Python speech recognition library.

In the end, you’ll apply what you’ve learned to a simple “Guess the Word” game and see how it all comes together.

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Before we get to the nitty-gritty of doing speech recognition in Python, let’s take a moment to talk about how speech recognition works. A full discussion would fill a book, so I won’t bore you with all of the technical details here. In fact, this section is not pre-requisite to the rest of the tutorial. If you’d like to get straight to the point, then feel free to skip ahead.

Speech recognition has its roots in research done at Bell Labs in the early 1950s. Early systems were limited to a single speaker and had limited vocabularies of about a dozen words. Modern speech recognition systems have come a long way since their ancient counterparts. They can recognize speech from multiple speakers and have enormous vocabularies in numerous languages.

The first component of speech recognition is, of course, speech. Speech must be converted from physical sound to an electrical signal with a microphone, and then to digital data with an analog-to-digital converter. Once digitized, several models can be used to transcribe the audio to text.

Most modern speech recognition systems rely on what is known as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). This approach works on the assumption that a speech signal, when viewed on a short enough timescale (say, ten milliseconds), can be reasonably approximated as a stationary process—that is, a process in which statistical properties do not change over time.

In a typical HMM, the speech signal is divided into 10-millisecond fragments. The power spectrum of each fragment, which is essentially a plot of the signal’s power as a function of frequency, is mapped to a vector of real numbers known as cepstral coefficients. The dimension of this vector is usually small—sometimes as low as 10, although more accurate systems may have dimension 32 or more. The final output of the HMM is a sequence of these vectors.

To decode the speech into text, groups of vectors are matched to one or more phonemes —a fundamental unit of speech. This calculation requires training, since the sound of a phoneme varies from speaker to speaker, and even varies from one utterance to another by the same speaker. A special algorithm is then applied to determine the most likely word (or words) that produce the given sequence of phonemes.

One can imagine that this whole process may be computationally expensive. In many modern speech recognition systems, neural networks are used to simplify the speech signal using techniques for feature transformation and dimensionality reduction before HMM recognition. Voice activity detectors (VADs) are also used to reduce an audio signal to only the portions that are likely to contain speech. This prevents the recognizer from wasting time analyzing unnecessary parts of the signal.

Fortunately, as a Python programmer, you don’t have to worry about any of this. A number of speech recognition services are available for use online through an API, and many of these services offer Python SDKs .

A handful of packages for speech recognition exist on PyPI. A few of them include:

• google-cloud-speech
• pocketsphinx
• SpeechRecognition
• watson-developer-cloud

Some of these packages—such as wit and apiai—offer built-in features, like natural language processing for identifying a speaker’s intent, which go beyond basic speech recognition. Others, like google-cloud-speech, focus solely on speech-to-text conversion.

There is one package that stands out in terms of ease-of-use: SpeechRecognition.

Recognizing speech requires audio input, and SpeechRecognition makes retrieving this input really easy. Instead of having to build scripts for accessing microphones and processing audio files from scratch, SpeechRecognition will have you up and running in just a few minutes.

The SpeechRecognition library acts as a wrapper for several popular speech APIs and is thus extremely flexible. One of these—the Google Web Speech API—supports a default API key that is hard-coded into the SpeechRecognition library. That means you can get off your feet without having to sign up for a service.

The flexibility and ease-of-use of the SpeechRecognition package make it an excellent choice for any Python project. However, support for every feature of each API it wraps is not guaranteed. You will need to spend some time researching the available options to find out if SpeechRecognition will work in your particular case.

So, now that you’re convinced you should try out SpeechRecognition, the next step is getting it installed in your environment.

SpeechRecognition is compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3+, but requires some additional installation steps for Python 2 . For this tutorial, I’ll assume you are using Python 3.3+.

You can install SpeechRecognition from a terminal with pip:

Once installed, you should verify the installation by opening an interpreter session and typing:

Note: The version number you get might vary. Version 3.8.1 was the latest at the time of writing.

Go ahead and keep this session open. You’ll start to work with it in just a bit.

SpeechRecognition will work out of the box if all you need to do is work with existing audio files. Specific use cases, however, require a few dependencies. Notably, the PyAudio package is needed for capturing microphone input.

You’ll see which dependencies you need as you read further. For now, let’s dive in and explore the basics of the package.

All of the magic in SpeechRecognition happens with the Recognizer class.

The primary purpose of a Recognizer instance is, of course, to recognize speech. Each instance comes with a variety of settings and functionality for recognizing speech from an audio source.

Creating a Recognizer instance is easy. In your current interpreter session, just type:

Each Recognizer instance has seven methods for recognizing speech from an audio source using various APIs. These are:

• recognize_bing() : Microsoft Bing Speech
• recognize_google() : Google Web Speech API
• recognize_google_cloud() : Google Cloud Speech - requires installation of the google-cloud-speech package
• recognize_houndify() : Houndify by SoundHound
• recognize_ibm() : IBM Speech to Text
• recognize_sphinx() : CMU Sphinx - requires installing PocketSphinx
• recognize_wit() : Wit.ai

Of the seven, only recognize_sphinx() works offline with the CMU Sphinx engine. The other six all require an internet connection.

A full discussion of the features and benefits of each API is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Since SpeechRecognition ships with a default API key for the Google Web Speech API, you can get started with it right away. For this reason, we’ll use the Web Speech API in this guide. The other six APIs all require authentication with either an API key or a username/password combination. For more information, consult the SpeechRecognition docs .

Caution: The default key provided by SpeechRecognition is for testing purposes only, and Google may revoke it at any time . It is not a good idea to use the Google Web Speech API in production. Even with a valid API key, you’ll be limited to only 50 requests per day, and there is no way to raise this quota . Fortunately, SpeechRecognition’s interface is nearly identical for each API, so what you learn today will be easy to translate to a real-world project.

Each recognize_*() method will throw a speech_recognition.RequestError exception if the API is unreachable. For recognize_sphinx() , this could happen as the result of a missing, corrupt or incompatible Sphinx installation. For the other six methods, RequestError may be thrown if quota limits are met, the server is unavailable, or there is no internet connection.

Ok, enough chit-chat. Let’s get our hands dirty. Go ahead and try to call recognize_google() in your interpreter session.

What happened?

You probably got something that looks like this:

You might have guessed this would happen. How could something be recognized from nothing?

All seven recognize_*() methods of the Recognizer class require an audio_data argument. In each case, audio_data must be an instance of SpeechRecognition’s AudioData class.

There are two ways to create an AudioData instance: from an audio file or audio recorded by a microphone. Audio files are a little easier to get started with, so let’s take a look at that first.

Working With Audio Files

Before you continue, you’ll need to download an audio file. The one I used to get started, “harvard.wav,” can be found here . Make sure you save it to the same directory in which your Python interpreter session is running.

SpeechRecognition makes working with audio files easy thanks to its handy AudioFile class. This class can be initialized with the path to an audio file and provides a context manager interface for reading and working with the file’s contents.

Currently, SpeechRecognition supports the following file formats:

• WAV: must be in PCM/LPCM format
• FLAC: must be native FLAC format; OGG-FLAC is not supported

If you are working on x-86 based Linux, macOS or Windows, you should be able to work with FLAC files without a problem. On other platforms, you will need to install a FLAC encoder and ensure you have access to the flac command line tool. You can find more information here if this applies to you.

Type the following into your interpreter session to process the contents of the “harvard.wav” file:

The context manager opens the file and reads its contents, storing the data in an AudioFile instance called source. Then the record() method records the data from the entire file into an AudioData instance. You can confirm this by checking the type of audio :

You can now invoke recognize_google() to attempt to recognize any speech in the audio. Depending on your internet connection speed, you may have to wait several seconds before seeing the result.

Congratulations! You’ve just transcribed your first audio file!

If you’re wondering where the phrases in the “harvard.wav” file come from, they are examples of Harvard Sentences. These phrases were published by the IEEE in 1965 for use in speech intelligibility testing of telephone lines. They are still used in VoIP and cellular testing today.

The Harvard Sentences are comprised of 72 lists of ten phrases. You can find freely available recordings of these phrases on the Open Speech Repository website. Recordings are available in English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Hindi. They provide an excellent source of free material for testing your code.

What if you only want to capture a portion of the speech in a file? The record() method accepts a duration keyword argument that stops the recording after a specified number of seconds.

For example, the following captures any speech in the first four seconds of the file:

The record() method, when used inside a with block, always moves ahead in the file stream. This means that if you record once for four seconds and then record again for four seconds, the second time returns the four seconds of audio after the first four seconds.

Notice that audio2 contains a portion of the third phrase in the file. When specifying a duration, the recording might stop mid-phrase—or even mid-word—which can hurt the accuracy of the transcription. More on this in a bit.

In addition to specifying a recording duration, the record() method can be given a specific starting point using the offset keyword argument. This value represents the number of seconds from the beginning of the file to ignore before starting to record.

To capture only the second phrase in the file, you could start with an offset of four seconds and record for, say, three seconds.

The offset and duration keyword arguments are useful for segmenting an audio file if you have prior knowledge of the structure of the speech in the file. However, using them hastily can result in poor transcriptions. To see this effect, try the following in your interpreter:

By starting the recording at 4.7 seconds, you miss the “it t” portion a the beginning of the phrase “it takes heat to bring out the odor,” so the API only got “akes heat,” which it matched to “Mesquite.”

Similarly, at the end of the recording, you captured “a co,” which is the beginning of the third phrase “a cold dip restores health and zest.” This was matched to “Aiko” by the API.

There is another reason you may get inaccurate transcriptions. Noise! The above examples worked well because the audio file is reasonably clean. In the real world, unless you have the opportunity to process audio files beforehand, you can not expect the audio to be noise-free.

Noise is a fact of life. All audio recordings have some degree of noise in them, and un-handled noise can wreck the accuracy of speech recognition apps.

To get a feel for how noise can affect speech recognition, download the “jackhammer.wav” file here . As always, make sure you save this to your interpreter session’s working directory.

This file has the phrase “the stale smell of old beer lingers” spoken with a loud jackhammer in the background.

What happens when you try to transcribe this file?

So how do you deal with this? One thing you can try is using the adjust_for_ambient_noise() method of the Recognizer class.

That got you a little closer to the actual phrase, but it still isn’t perfect. Also, “the” is missing from the beginning of the phrase. Why is that?

The adjust_for_ambient_noise() method reads the first second of the file stream and calibrates the recognizer to the noise level of the audio. Hence, that portion of the stream is consumed before you call record() to capture the data.

You can adjust the time-frame that adjust_for_ambient_noise() uses for analysis with the duration keyword argument. This argument takes a numerical value in seconds and is set to 1 by default. Try lowering this value to 0.5.

Well, that got you “the” at the beginning of the phrase, but now you have some new issues! Sometimes it isn’t possible to remove the effect of the noise—the signal is just too noisy to be dealt with successfully. That’s the case with this file.

If you find yourself running up against these issues frequently, you may have to resort to some pre-processing of the audio. This can be done with audio editing software or a Python package (such as SciPy ) that can apply filters to the files. A detailed discussion of this is beyond the scope of this tutorial—check out Allen Downey’s Think DSP book if you are interested. For now, just be aware that ambient noise in an audio file can cause problems and must be addressed in order to maximize the accuracy of speech recognition.

When working with noisy files, it can be helpful to see the actual API response. Most APIs return a JSON string containing many possible transcriptions. The recognize_google() method will always return the most likely transcription unless you force it to give you the full response.

You can do this by setting the show_all keyword argument of the recognize_google() method to True.

As you can see, recognize_google() returns a dictionary with the key 'alternative' that points to a list of possible transcripts. The structure of this response may vary from API to API and is mainly useful for debugging.

By now, you have a pretty good idea of the basics of the SpeechRecognition package. You’ve seen how to create an AudioFile instance from an audio file and use the record() method to capture data from the file. You learned how to record segments of a file using the offset and duration keyword arguments of record() , and you experienced the detrimental effect noise can have on transcription accuracy.

Now for the fun part. Let’s transition from transcribing static audio files to making your project interactive by accepting input from a microphone.

Working With Microphones

To access your microphone with SpeechRecognizer, you’ll have to install the PyAudio package . Go ahead and close your current interpreter session, and let’s do that.

The process for installing PyAudio will vary depending on your operating system.

Debian Linux

If you’re on Debian-based Linux (like Ubuntu) you can install PyAudio with apt :

Once installed, you may still need to run pip install pyaudio , especially if you are working in a virtual environment .

For macOS, first you will need to install PortAudio with Homebrew, and then install PyAudio with pip :

On Windows, you can install PyAudio with pip :

Testing the Installation

Once you’ve got PyAudio installed, you can test the installation from the console.

Make sure your default microphone is on and unmuted. If the installation worked, you should see something like this:

Shell A moment of silence, please... Set minimum energy threshold to 600.4452854381937 Say something! Copied! Go ahead and play around with it a little bit by speaking into your microphone and seeing how well SpeechRecognition transcribes your speech.

Note: If you are on Ubuntu and get some funky output like ‘ALSA lib … Unknown PCM’, refer to this page for tips on suppressing these messages. This output comes from the ALSA package installed with Ubuntu—not SpeechRecognition or PyAudio. In all reality, these messages may indicate a problem with your ALSA configuration, but in my experience, they do not impact the functionality of your code. They are mostly a nuisance.

Open up another interpreter session and create an instance of the recognizer class.

Now, instead of using an audio file as the source, you will use the default system microphone. You can access this by creating an instance of the Microphone class.

If your system has no default microphone (such as on a Raspberry Pi ), or you want to use a microphone other than the default, you will need to specify which one to use by supplying a device index. You can get a list of microphone names by calling the list_microphone_names() static method of the Microphone class.

Note that your output may differ from the above example.

The device index of the microphone is the index of its name in the list returned by list_microphone_names(). For example, given the above output, if you want to use the microphone called “front,” which has index 3 in the list, you would create a microphone instance like this:

For most projects, though, you’ll probably want to use the default system microphone.

Now that you’ve got a Microphone instance ready to go, it’s time to capture some input.

Just like the AudioFile class, Microphone is a context manager. You can capture input from the microphone using the listen() method of the Recognizer class inside of the with block. This method takes an audio source as its first argument and records input from the source until silence is detected.

Once you execute the with block, try speaking “hello” into your microphone. Wait a moment for the interpreter prompt to display again. Once the “>>>” prompt returns, you’re ready to recognize the speech.

If the prompt never returns, your microphone is most likely picking up too much ambient noise. You can interrupt the process with Ctrl + C to get your prompt back.

To handle ambient noise, you’ll need to use the adjust_for_ambient_noise() method of the Recognizer class, just like you did when trying to make sense of the noisy audio file. Since input from a microphone is far less predictable than input from an audio file, it is a good idea to do this anytime you listen for microphone input.

After running the above code, wait a second for adjust_for_ambient_noise() to do its thing, then try speaking “hello” into the microphone. Again, you will have to wait a moment for the interpreter prompt to return before trying to recognize the speech.

Recall that adjust_for_ambient_noise() analyzes the audio source for one second. If this seems too long to you, feel free to adjust this with the duration keyword argument.

The SpeechRecognition documentation recommends using a duration no less than 0.5 seconds. In some cases, you may find that durations longer than the default of one second generate better results. The minimum value you need depends on the microphone’s ambient environment. Unfortunately, this information is typically unknown during development. In my experience, the default duration of one second is adequate for most applications.

Try typing the previous code example in to the interpeter and making some unintelligible noises into the microphone. You should get something like this in response:

Audio that cannot be matched to text by the API raises an UnknownValueError exception. You should always wrap calls to the API with try and except blocks to handle this exception .

Note : You may have to try harder than you expect to get the exception thrown. The API works very hard to transcribe any vocal sounds. Even short grunts were transcribed as words like “how” for me. Coughing, hand claps, and tongue clicks would consistently raise the exception.

Now that you’ve seen the basics of recognizing speech with the SpeechRecognition package let’s put your newfound knowledge to use and write a small game that picks a random word from a list and gives the user three attempts to guess the word.

Here is the full script:

Let’s break that down a little bit.

The recognize_speech_from_mic() function takes a Recognizer and Microphone instance as arguments and returns a dictionary with three keys. The first key, "success" , is a boolean that indicates whether or not the API request was successful. The second key, "error" , is either None or an error message indicating that the API is unavailable or the speech was unintelligible. Finally, the "transcription" key contains the transcription of the audio recorded by the microphone.

The function first checks that the recognizer and microphone arguments are of the correct type, and raises a TypeError if either is invalid:

The listen() method is then used to record microphone input:

The adjust_for_ambient_noise() method is used to calibrate the recognizer for changing noise conditions each time the recognize_speech_from_mic() function is called.

Next, recognize_google() is called to transcribe any speech in the recording. A try...except block is used to catch the RequestError and UnknownValueError exceptions and handle them accordingly. The success of the API request, any error messages, and the transcribed speech are stored in the success , error and transcription keys of the response dictionary, which is returned by the recognize_speech_from_mic() function.

You can test the recognize_speech_from_mic() function by saving the above script to a file called “guessing_game.py” and running the following in an interpreter session:

The game itself is pretty simple. First, a list of words, a maximum number of allowed guesses and a prompt limit are declared:

Next, a Recognizer and Microphone instance is created and a random word is chosen from WORDS :

After printing some instructions and waiting for 3 three seconds, a for loop is used to manage each user attempt at guessing the chosen word. The first thing inside the for loop is another for loop that prompts the user at most PROMPT_LIMIT times for a guess, attempting to recognize the input each time with the recognize_speech_from_mic() function and storing the dictionary returned to the local variable guess .

If the "transcription" key of guess is not None , then the user’s speech was transcribed and the inner loop is terminated with break . If the speech was not transcribed and the "success" key is set to False , then an API error occurred and the loop is again terminated with break . Otherwise, the API request was successful but the speech was unrecognizable. The user is warned and the for loop repeats, giving the user another chance at the current attempt.

Once the inner for loop terminates, the guess dictionary is checked for errors. If any occurred, the error message is displayed and the outer for loop is terminated with break , which will end the program execution.

If there weren’t any errors, the transcription is compared to the randomly selected word. The lower() method for string objects is used to ensure better matching of the guess to the chosen word. The API may return speech matched to the word “apple” as “Apple” or “apple,” and either response should count as a correct answer.

If the guess was correct, the user wins and the game is terminated. If the user was incorrect and has any remaining attempts, the outer for loop repeats and a new guess is retrieved. Otherwise, the user loses the game.

When run, the output will look something like this:

In this tutorial, you’ve seen how to install the SpeechRecognition package and use its Recognizer class to easily recognize speech from both a file—using record() —and microphone input—using listen(). You also saw how to process segments of an audio file using the offset and duration keyword arguments of the record() method.

You’ve seen the effect noise can have on the accuracy of transcriptions, and have learned how to adjust a Recognizer instance’s sensitivity to ambient noise with adjust_for_ambient_noise(). You have also learned which exceptions a Recognizer instance may throw— RequestError for bad API requests and UnkownValueError for unintelligible speech—and how to handle these with try...except blocks.

Speech recognition is a deep subject, and what you have learned here barely scratches the surface. If you’re interested in learning more, here are some additional resources.

For more information on the SpeechRecognition package:

• Library reference
• Troubleshooting page

A few interesting internet resources:

• Behind the Mic: The Science of Talking with Computers . A short film about speech processing by Google.
• A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition by Huang, Baker and Reddy. Communications of the ACM (2014). This article provides an in-depth and scholarly look at the evolution of speech recognition technology.
• The Past, Present and Future of Speech Recognition Technology by Clark Boyd at The Startup. This blog post presents an overview of speech recognition technology, with some thoughts about the future.

Some good books about speech recognition:

• The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech , Pieraccini, MIT Press (2012). An accessible general-audience book covering the history of, as well as modern advances in, speech processing.
• Fundamentals of Speech Recognition , Rabiner and Juang, Prentice Hall (1993). Rabiner, a researcher at Bell Labs, was instrumental in designing some of the first commercially viable speech recognizers. This book is now over 20 years old, but a lot of the fundamentals remain the same.
• Automatic Speech Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach , Yu and Deng, Springer (2014). Yu and Deng are researchers at Microsoft and both very active in the field of speech processing. This book covers a lot of modern approaches and cutting-edge research but is not for the mathematically faint-of-heart.

Throughout this tutorial, we’ve been recognizing speech in English, which is the default language for each recognize_*() method of the SpeechRecognition package. However, it is absolutely possible to recognize speech in other languages, and is quite simple to accomplish.

To recognize speech in a different language, set the language keyword argument of the recognize_*() method to a string corresponding to the desired language. Most of the methods accept a BCP-47 language tag, such as 'en-US' for American English, or 'fr-FR' for French. For example, the following recognizes French speech in an audio file:

Only the following methods accept a language keyword argument:

• recognize_bing()
• recognize_google()
• recognize_google_cloud()
• recognize_ibm()
• recognize_sphinx()

To find out which language tags are supported by the API you are using, you’ll have to consult the corresponding documentation . A list of tags accepted by recognize_google() can be found in this Stack Overflow answer .

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No download, no install and even no registration needed, so you can start working right away. Speechnotes is especially designed to provide you a distraction-free environment. Every note, starts with a new clear white paper, so to stimulate your mind with a clean fresh start. All other elements but the text itself are out of sight by fading out, so you can concentrate on the most important part - your own creativity. In addition to that, speaking instead of typing, enables you to think and speak it out fluently, uninterrupted, which again encourages creative, clear thinking. Fonts and colors all over the app were designed to be sharp and have excellent legibility characteristics. Example use cases Voice typing Writing notes, thoughts Medical forms - dictate Transcribers (listen and dictate) Transcription Service Start transcribing Fast turnaround - results within minutes. Includes timestamps, auto punctuation and subtitles at unbeatable price. Protects your privacy: no human in the loop, and (unlike many other vendors) we do NOT keep your audio. Pay per use, no recurring payments. Upload your files or transcribe directly from Google Drive, YouTube or any other online source. Simple. No download or install. Just send us the file and get the results in minutes. Transcribe interviews Captions for Youtubes & movies Auto-transcribe phone calls or voice messages Students - transcribe lectures Podcasters - enlarge your audience by turning your podcasts into textual content Text-index entire audio archives Key Advantages Speechnotes is powered by the leading most accurate speech recognition AI engines by Google & Microsoft. We always check - and make sure we still use the best. Accuracy in English is very good and can easily reach 95% accuracy for good quality dictation or recording. Lightweight & fast Both Speechnotes dictation & transcription are lightweight-online no install, work out of the box anywhere you are. Dictation works in real time. Transcription will get you results in a matter of minutes. Super Private & Secure! Super private - no human handles, sees or listens to your recordings! In addition, we take great measures to protect your privacy. For example, for transcribing your recordings - we pay Google's speech to text engines extra - just so they do not keep your audio for their own research purposes. Health advantages Typing may result in different types of Computer Related Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Voice typing is one of the main recommended ways to minimize these risks, as it enables you to sit back comfortably, freeing your arms, hands, shoulders and back altogether. Saves you time Need to transcribe a recording? If it's an hour long, transcribing it yourself will take you about 6! hours of work. If you send it to a transcriber - you will get it back in days! Upload it to Speechnotes - it will take you less than a minute, and you will get the results in about 20 minutes to your email. Saves you money Speechnotes dictation notepad is completely free - with ads - or a small fee to get it ad-free. Speechnotes transcription is only $0.1/minute, which is X10 times cheaper than a human transcriber! We offer the best deal on the market - whether it's the free dictation notepad ot the pay-as-you-go transcription service. Dictation - Free Online dictation notepad Voice typing Chrome extension Dictation - Premium Premium online dictation notepad Premium voice typing Chrome extension Support from the development team Transcription $0.1 /minute. Pay as you go - no subscription Audio & video recordings Speaker diarization in English Generate captions .srt files REST API, webhooks & Zapier integration Compare plans Dictation Free Dictation Premium Transcription Unlimited dictation ✅ ✅ Online notepad ✅ ✅ Voice typing extension ✅ ✅ Editing ✅ ✅ ✅ Ads free ✅ ✅ Transcribe recordings ✅ Transcribe Youtubes ✅ API & webhooks ✅ Zapier ✅ Export to captions ✅ Extra security ✅ ✅ Support from the development team ✅ ✅ Privacy Policy We at Speechnotes, Speechlogger, TextHear, Speechkeys value your privacy, and that's why we do not store anything you say or type or in fact any other data about you - unless it is solely needed for the purpose of your operation. We don't share it with 3rd parties, other than Google / Microsoft for the speech-to-text engine. Privacy - how are the recordings and results handled? - transcription service. Our transcription service is probably the most private and secure transcription service available. HIPAA compliant. No human in the loop. No passing your recording between PCs, emails, employees, etc. Secure encrypted communications (https) with and between our servers. Recordings are automatically deleted from our servers as soon as the transcription is done. Our contract with Google / Microsoft (our speech engines providers) prohibits them from keeping any audio or results. Transcription results are securely kept on our secure database. Only you have access to them - only if you sign in (or provide your secret credentials through the API) You may choose to delete the transcription results - once you do - no copy remains on our servers. - Dictation notepad & extension For dictation, the recording & recognition - is delegated to and done by the browser (Chrome / Edge) or operating system (Android). So, we never even have access to the recorded audio, and Edge's / Chrome's / Android's (depending the one you use) privacy policy apply here. The results of the dictation are saved locally on your machine - via the browser's / app's local storage. It never gets to our servers. So, as long as your device is private - your notes are private. Payments method privacy The whole payments process is delegated to PayPal / Stripe / Google Pay / Play Store / App Store and secured by these providers. We never receive any of your credit card information. More generic notes regarding our site, cookies, analytics, ads, etc. We may use Google Analytics on our site - which is a generic tool to track usage statistics. We use cookies - which means we save data on your browser to send to our servers when needed. This is used for instance to sign you in, and then keep you signed in. For the dictation tool - we use your browser's local storage to store your notes, so you can access them later. Non premium dictation tool serves ads by Google. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings . Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://youradchoices.com/ In case you would like to upload files to Google Drive directly from Speechnotes - we'll ask for your permission to do so. We will use that permission for that purpose only - syncing your speech-notes to your Google Drive, per your request. Subscribe to the PwC Newsletter Join the community, add a new evaluation result row, speech-to-text translation. 52 papers with code • 10 benchmarks • 3 datasets Translate audio signals of speech in one language into text in a foreign language, either in an end-to-end or cascade manner. Benchmarks Add a Result --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Trend Dataset Best Model Paper Code Compare Task Modulation + Multitask Learning(ASR/MT) + Data Augmentation Transformer with Adapters Dual-decoder Transformer Transformer + ASR Pretrain + SpecAug Transformer with Adapters SeamlessM4T Large SeamlessM4T Large SeamlessM4T Large SeamlessM4T Large Speechformer Most implemented papers Fairseq s2t: fast speech-to-text modeling with fairseq. We introduce fairseq S2T, a fairseq extension for speech-to-text (S2T) modeling tasks such as end-to-end speech recognition and speech-to-text translation. CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation Speech translation has recently become an increasingly popular topic of research, partly due to the development of benchmark datasets. Learning Shared Semantic Space for Speech-to-Text Translation By projecting audio and text features to a common semantic representation, Chimera unifies MT and ST tasks and boosts the performance on ST benchmarks, MuST-C and Augmented Librispeech, to a new state-of-the-art. Lightweight Adapter Tuning for Multilingual Speech Translation Adapter modules were recently introduced as an efficient alternative to fine-tuning in NLP. SHAS: Approaching optimal Segmentation for End-to-End Speech Translation Speech translation datasets provide manual segmentations of the audios, which are not available in real-world scenarios, and existing segmentation methods usually significantly reduce translation quality at inference time. A$^3$T: Alignment-Aware Acoustic and Text Pretraining for Speech Synthesis and Editing Recently, speech representation learning has improved many speech-related tasks such as speech recognition, speech classification, and speech-to-text translation. PaddleSpeech: An Easy-to-Use All-in-One Speech Toolkit PaddleSpeech is an open-source all-in-one speech toolkit. SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation What does it take to create the Babel Fish, a tool that can help individuals translate speech between any two languages? Listen and Translate: A Proof of Concept for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation This paper proposes a first attempt to build an end-to-end speech-to-text translation system, which does not use source language transcription during learning or decoding. Augmenting Librispeech with French Translations: A Multimodal Corpus for Direct Speech Translation Evaluation alicank/Translation-Augmented-LibriSpeech-Corpus • LREC 2018 However, while large quantities of parallel texts (such as Europarl, OpenSubtitles) are available for training machine translation systems, there are no large (100h) and open source parallel corpora that include speech in a source language aligned to text in a target language. Version 1.90 is now available! Read about the new features and fixes from May. May 2024 (version 1.90) Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the May 2024 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Editor tabs multi-select - Select and perform actions on multiple tabs simultaneously. Profiles - Open new windows with your preferred profile. Editor actions - Immediately access editor actions across editor groups. Copilot extensibility - Build AI into your extensions with the Chat and Language Model API. VS Code Speech - Automatically read out Copilot Chat responses with text-to-speech. Find in notebooks - Restrict search to selected cells in notebooks. Chat context - Quickly attach different types of context in chat. IntelliSense in chat responses - Better understand generated code with IntelliSense. If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com . Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available. Accessibility Set keybindings from the accessibility help dialog. Accessibility help dialogs give you an overview of important commands for a feature or view. When a command lacks a keybinding assignment, you can now configure it from within the accessibility help dialog with ⌥K (Windows, Linux Alt+K ) . Experimental: signal delay settings When the setting Debounce position changes is enabled, you can use the setting Signal options delays to customize the debouncing time for various accessibility signals. Editor tabs multi select You can now select multiple tabs simultaneously, enabling you to apply actions to multiple editors at once. This new feature enables you to move, pin, or close several tabs with a single action. To add another tab to your selection, use Ctrl + Click ( Cmd + Click on macOS). To select a range of tabs, use Shift + Click . Always show editor actions We are introducing the Always Show Editor Actions setting. When you enable this setting, the editor title actions of each editor group are always shown, regardless of whether the editor is active or not. When the setting is not enabled (default value), the editor actions are only shown when the editor is active: If you enable the setting, the editor actions are always available, even when the editor is not active: Set disable-lcd-text as a runtime argument With disable-lcd-text , you can disable RGB subpixel rendering on Windows. The disable-lcd-text setting is now supported as a runtime argument in the argv.json file. Previously, it was only available as an undocumented CLI flag. Use the Preferences: Configure Runtime Arguments command to configure the runtime arguments. In the following image you can see a side-by-side comparison, where on the left side disable-lcd-text is true , and on the right side it is false . Theme: Light Pink (preview on vscode.dev ) Configure custom profile for new window Previously, when you opened a new VS Code window, it used the profile of the active window or the default profile, if there was no active window. You can now specify which profile should be used when opening a new window by configuring the window.newWindowProfile setting. Source Control Focus input/resource group commands. This milestone, we have added several workbench commands, so that you can create keyboard shortcuts for them: Focus on the next or previous source control input field: workbench.scm.action.focusNextInput , workbench.scm.action.focusPreviousInput Focus on the next or previous resource group within a repository: workbench.scm.action.focusNextResourceGroup , workbench.scm.action.focusPreviousResourceGroup Find in cell selection When you're in a notebook, you can now use the Find control to search within specific ranges of selected cells. After you set notebook.experimental.find.scope.enabled to true , the Find in Cell Selection toggle will be available in the Find control. You can then select a range of cells and either open the Find control or, if it's already open, select the "Find in Cell Selection" button. Notebook Format Code Actions Notebooks now support a new kind of Code Action, which is defined with the notebook.format Code Action Kind prefix. These Code Actions can be triggered automatically via an explicit formatting request (using the command Notebook: Format Notebook ) or a formatting on save request. These can be used to provide more powerful formatting, through the use of Workspace Edits and Notebook Edits. To get started, check out an example extension in the vscode-extension-samples repository. ⚠️ Removal of the canvas renderer The canvas renderer was deprecated in the VS Code 1.89 release and is now removed completely. This means that on the small number of machines that do not support WebGL2, the terminal now uses the DOM-based renderer. You can read more about GPU acceleration in the terminal documentation . Rescaling overlapping glyph in the terminal The setting terminal.integrated.rescaleOverlappingGlyphs , introduced as a preview feature in the VS Code 1.88 release, is now enabled by default. This feature rescales glyphs that overlap following cells that are intended to cover ambiguous-width characters, and which might have font glyphs that don't match what the backing pty/unicode version thinks it is. For example, in most fonts the roman numeral unicode characters ( U+2160+ ) typically takes up multiple cells, so they are rescaled horizontally when this setting is enabled. Without rescaling: With rescaling: Contributions to extensions Github copilot, attach context to chat. To make your chat prompts more specific, you can add context to your chat messages. You can now attach more types of context to a chat message, such as workspace symbols. Previously, you used the '#' symbol to reference a file, or the current selection. Now, you can attach context to a chat message by selecting the 📎 icon in the Chat view input field, or by typing ⌘/ (Windows, Linux Ctrl+/ ) . Tip : Use the right arrow key to quickly attach context in the background while you keep the context picker open. When you're in the editor, you can also right-click on a selection and choose Copilot > Add Selection to Chat . Ask questions using Bing search and enterprise knowledge bases GitHub Copilot Enterprise users in VS Code can now ask questions that are enriched with context from web results and your enterprise's knowledge bases . To try out this functionality, install the latest pre-release of Copilot Chat. In the Chat view, you can ask questions like @github What is the latest LTS of Node.js? #web to take advantage of web search. Any search results referenced by Copilot are displayed in the Used References section of the chat response. You can also ask questions about your enterprise's knowledge bases, which are collections of Markdown repositories containing documentation, directly from VS Code. Simply type @github #kb to pick from the knowledge bases available to you. Similarly, any knowledge base snippets referenced by Copilot are displayed in the Used References section of the chat response. This enables Copilot Enterprise users to combine search results and internal documentation with editor context by using existing chat variables, such as #file and #selection . Please try it out and share your feedback with us at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-release! IntelliSense in chat code blocks We now support basic IntelliSense within Copilot-generated code blocks. This lets you use many of the same IntelliSense tools that you might already use in the editor and can help you better understand the generated code. The supported IntelliSense features include: Go to definition by using ctrl click / cmd click or F12 Go to implementation Go to type definition IntelliSense can even be used with @workspace to learn about any workspace symbols that are used in Copilot responses. IntelliSense for TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code blocks is available out of the box. For additional language support, try installing an extension for that language, although not every language extension already has support for code block IntelliSense. Please file feature requests for any languages that aren't yet supporting this. Improved links in chat responses We improved chat responses by adding links for file names and symbols. By selecting these links, you can navigate to the corresponding file or symbol in the editor. Roam active chat between inline chat and Chat view You can now move a chat request that is completed or still active from inline chat to the Chat view. You might use this feature to clean up inline chat and move conversations to a more persistent place. To move a request, select the chat icon next to the chat input box. Automatic rename suggestions If you use the Copilot Chat extension, the Copilot-powered rename suggestions are now triggered automatically when you rename a symbol. You can turn this feature off by using the setting github.copilot.renameSuggestions.triggerAutomatically . Testing bug fixes The experience with pytest when using the Python Testing Rewrite has been improved to offer better support for setting pytest's cwd when it is adjacent to the VS Code workspace root, and for displaying parameterized tests on the test explorer when function names are repeated across classes. Additionally, we reduced some test discovery failure scenarios by adding the system configuration script path to PATH to enable shell for test execution. Experimental: Python Native REPL with Intellisense and Syntax Highlighting You can now run your Python code in an editor-like REPL environment equipped with features like Intellisense and syntax highlighting to make interactions with the REPL more efficient. To enable this feature, set "python.REPL.sendToNativeREPL": true in your settings.json file. This will execute code in the Python Native REPL on Shift+Enter and Run Selection/Line . You can opt to use the in-terminal Python REPL ( >>> ) by setting "python.REPL.sendToNativeREPL": false in your settings.json . Moreover, the Python Native REPL will smartly execute on Enter , similar to Python’s original interactive interpreter, if you add the setting "interactiveWindow.executeWithShiftEnter": false , in your settings.json . GitHub Pull Requests and Issues There has been more progress on the GitHub Pull Requests extension, which enables you to work on, create, and manage pull requests and issues. Review the changelog for the 0.90.0 release of the extension to learn about the other highlights. VS Code Speech We added support for text-to-speech capabilities to the VS Code Speech extension. A new setting accessibility.voice.autoSynthesize can be enabled to automatically read out aloud Copilot Chat responses when voice was also used as input. Notice how the microphone icon in the input field changes, indicating that text is read out aloud. To interrupt the synthesis, select the icon or press Escape . Each chat response also shows a new speaker icon, so that you can selectively read out a response aloud: You can change the language that is used for text-to-speech via the existing accessibility.voice.speechLanguage setting. Preview Features Vs code-native intellisense for powershell. In addition to several reliability improvements, we made the following changes to PowerShell IntelliSense in the terminal: terminal.integrated.shellIntegration.suggestEnabled has changed to terminal.integrated.suggest.enabled The new terminal.integrated.suggest.quickSuggestions controls whether suggestions are shown when you type after whitespace The new terminal.integrated.suggest.suggestOnTriggerCharacters controls whether suggestions are shown when you type / , \ or - TypeScript 5.5 We continued improving our support for the upcoming TypeScript 5.5 release. Check out the TypeScript 5.5 beta blog post and iteration plan for details on this release. To start using the TypeScript 5.5 beta, install the TypeScript Nightly extension . Please share feedback and let us know if you run into any bugs with TypeScript 5.5. Issue Reporter for Web We have improved the issue reporting flow in VS Code for the Web to match what users currently have on desktop. Selecting Help: Report Issue opens the issue reporter page in a new window, where users can select a bug type, source, and extension if necessary. Extension information, system information, and more is automatically attached to the issue that is created in GitHub. This feature is currently disabled by default on this release, but please share feedback on it by turning on the issueReporter.experimental.webReporter setting. Extension authoring Use esbuild for extensions. The yo code extension generators for TypeScript and Web now have an option to use esbuild as bundler. When you select esbuild , this creates a esbuild.js build script and adds script entries in package.json and build tasks in .vscode/tasks.json . To use esbuild in existing extensions, check out the bundling extensions and the web extensions guides. You can find a sample project at vscode-extension-samples/esbuild-sample . Chat and Language Model API We have finalized APIs that enable extensions to participate in chat and to access language models. See the extension sample and the chat extensions doc page for more information, or watch the Enhancing VS Code extensions with GitHub Copilot talk we delivered at the Microsoft Build conference. Important : These APIs are finalized but are currently only available in VS Code Insiders. Chat Participants The Chat Participants API enables extensions to extend GitHub Copilot Chat with a chat participant that can be invoked in the chat input field with @ . The participant can reply to user requests with markdown, a file tree, buttons to run VS Code commands, or other types of content. Language Model The Language Model API enables access to Copilot's chat models, such as gpt-3.5 and gpt-4. This API can be used for chat participants but also to enrich other features. The API is built around LanguageModelChat objects, which are used for chat requests and for counting tokens. The only way to access chat objects is the vscode.lm.selectChatModels function. The function accepts a selector to narrow down on different properties of chat models, for example by vendor, family, version, or identifier. The values are relatively free-form and must be looked up in the documentation of the extensions that provide them. Today, only the Copilot Chat extension contributes chat models. It uses the copilot vendor and current families are gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 but are subject to change. The snippet shows how to select all chat models from the copilot -vendor: Two things are very important when callng selectChatModels The function returns an empty array if no models are available and extensions must handle this case. Copilot's chat models require consent from the user before an extension can use them. Consent is implemented as authentication dialog. Because of that, selectChatModels should be called as part of a user-initiated action like a command, and not "out of the blue". With a chat object at hand, extensions can now use it to send chat requests. The following snippet shows how to send a chat request and process the response stream. This is the gist of the language model API. Refer to the extension sample for a more complete example. Stay tuned for more samples, documentation, and further extensions of the API. The Java extension for VS Code is already using the Language Model API to provide Copilot-based rewrite capabilities for your Java code. Learn more about these updates in the Java in Visual Studio Code May 2024 blog post. @vscode/prompt-tsx library To aid with developing GitHub Copilot extensions for VS Code, we've developed and published a TSX-based library for declaring complex prompts and converting them to chat messages, subject to your LLM's context window limits. In developing this, we took inspiration from Anysphere's priompt library. If you're an extension author who is planning to use the chat and language model APIs, consider trying out the latest alpha release of this library: @vscode/prompt-tsx . Extending GitHub Copilot through GitHub Apps It is also possible to extend GitHub Copilot by contributing a GitHub App. This GitHub App can contribute a chat participant in the Chat view, which you can invoke with @ . A GitHub App is backed by a service and works across all GitHub Copilot surfaces, such as github.com, Visual Studio, or VS Code. GitHub Apps do not have full access to the VS Code API. To extend GitHub Copilot through a GitHub App, you should join the Copilot Partner Program . You can learn more by watching the Extending GitHub Copilot talk we delivered at the Microsoft Build conference. Debug Stack Focus API VS Code now exposes what stack frame and thread are focused in the Debug view via a new API. vscode.debug.activeStackItem retrieves what stack item (thread or stack frame) is currently focused, and vscode.debug.onDidChangeActiveStackItem is an event that fires when that changes. This is useful in conjunction with APIs that extend VS Code's debug capabilities, such as ones that use the DebugAdapterTracker . Learn more about creating a debugger extension . TestRunRequest.preserveFocus API Previously, test runs that were triggered by extensions would never move focus into the Test Results view in the same way that UI-initiated runs did. This behavior is now configurable via a preserveFocus flag that can be set when creating a TestRunRequest . This flag defaults to true to maintain backwards compatibility. Proposed APIs Attributable test coverage. We're working on an API that enables attributing test coverage on a per-test basis. This lets users see which tests ran which code, filtering both the coverage shown in the editor and that in the Test Coverage view. Check vscode#212196 for more information and updates. Hover Verbosity Level Last milestone, a new API was proposed to provide hovers for which the verbosity can be increased or decreased. This milestone, the API has changed so that the HoverVerbosityRequest uses a verbosityDelta to signal the relative increase or decrease in the hover verbosity level. Previously, the HoverVerbosityRequest used an enum HoverVerbosityAction to signal if the verbosity should be increased or decreased. Engineering Tracking memory efficiency on startup. We measure startup performance of VS Code insiders every day across Windows, macOS and Linux. Our main interest is how fast startup is until a text file is opened. 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Abstract: This paper introduces VALL-E 2, the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time. Based on its predecessor, VALL-E, the new iteration introduces two significant enhancements: Repetition Aware Sampling refines the original nucleus sampling process by accounting for token repetition in the decoding history. It not only stabilizes the decoding but also circumvents the infinite loop issue. Grouped Code Modeling organizes codec codes into groups to effectively shorten the sequence length, which not only boosts inference speed but also addresses the challenges of long sequence modeling. Our experiments on the LibriSpeech and VCTK datasets show that VALL-E 2 surpasses previous systems in speech robustness, naturalness, and speaker similarity. It is the first of its kind to reach human parity on these benchmarks. Moreover, VALL-E 2 consistently synthesizes high-quality speech, even for sentences that are traditionally challenging due to their complexity or repetitive phrases. The advantages of this work could contribute to valuable endeavors, such as generating speech for individuals with aphasia or people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Demos of VALL-E 2 will be posted to this https URL . Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) Cite as: [cs.CL]   (or [cs.CL] for this version) Submission history Access paper:. HTML (experimental) Other Formats References & Citations Google Scholar Semantic Scholar BibTeX formatted citation Bibliographic and Citation Tools Code, data and media associated with this article, recommenders and search tools. Institution arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Español – América Latina Português – Brasil Documentation Cloud Text-to-Speech API All Text-to-Speech code samples This page contains code samples for Text-to-Speech. To search and filter code samples for other Google Cloud products, see the Google Cloud sample browser . 416 IMAGES Speech To Text Using HTML,CSS And JavaScript (Source Code), 50% OFF How to Create a Simple Text to Speech Application? 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Overview The Speech-to-Text API enables developers to convert audio to text in over 125 languages and variants, by applying powerful neural network models in an easy to use API.. In this tutorial, you will focus on using the Speech-to-Text API with Python. What you'll learn. How to set up your environment Accurately convert speech into text using an API powered by Google's AI Support your global user base with Speech-to-Text service's extensive language support in over 125 languages and variants. Have full control over your infrastructure and protected speech data while leveraging Google's speech recognition technology on-premises, right in your own private data centers. Take the next step. Using the Speech-to-Text API with Node.js 1. Overview Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API enables developers to convert audio to text in 120 languages and variants, by applying powerful neural network models in an easy to use API.. 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