Class: Google::Cloud::Speech::Audio

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb

Overview

Audio

Represents a source of audio data, with related metadata such as the audio encoding, sample rate, and language.

See Project#audio.

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000
results = audio.recognize

result = results.first
result.transcript #=> "how old is the Brooklyn Bridge"
result.confidence #=> 0.9826789498329163

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Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Attribute Details

#encoding ⇒ String, Symbol

Encoding of audio data to be recognized.

Acceptable values are:

  • raw - Uncompressed 16-bit signed little-endian samples. (LINEAR16)
  • flac - The Free Lossless Audio Codec encoding. Only 16-bit samples are supported. Not all fields in STREAMINFO are supported. (FLAC)
  • mulaw - 8-bit samples that compand 14-bit audio samples using G.711 PCMU/mu-law. (MULAW)
  • amr - Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrowband codec. (sample_rate must be 8000 Hz.) (AMR)
  • amr_wb - Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband codec. (sample_rate must be 16000 Hz.) (AMR_WB)

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000

Returns:

  • (String, Symbol) 


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# File 'lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb', line 83

def encoding
  @encoding
end

#language ⇒ String, Symbol

The language of the supplied audio as a BCP-47 language code. If not specified, the language defaults to "en-US". See Language Support for a list of the currently supported language codes.

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000,
                     language: :en

Returns:

  • (String, Symbol) 


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# File 'lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb', line 121

def language
  @language
end

#sample_rate ⇒ Integer

Sample rate in Hertz of the audio data to be recognized. Valid values are: 8000-48000. 16000 is optimal. For best results, set the sampling rate of the audio source to 16000 Hz. If that's not possible, use the native sample rate of the audio source (instead of re-sampling).

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000

Returns:

  • (Integer) 


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# File 'lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb', line 101

def sample_rate
  @sample_rate
end

Instance Method Details

#recognize(max_alternatives: nil, profanity_filter: nil, phrases: nil) ⇒ Array<Result>

Performs synchronous speech recognition. Sends audio data to the Speech API, which performs recognition on that data, and returns results only after all audio has been processed. Limited to audio data of 1 minute or less in duration.

The Speech API will take roughly the same amount of time to process audio data sent synchronously as the duration of the supplied audio data. That is, if you send audio data of 30 seconds in length, expect the synchronous request to take approximately 30 seconds to return results.

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000
results = audio.recognize

result = results.first
result.transcript #=> "how old is the Brooklyn Bridge"
result.confidence #=> 0.9826789498329163

Parameters:

  • max_alternatives (String) —

    The Maximum number of recognition hypotheses to be returned. Default is 1. The service may return fewer. Valid values are 0-30. Defaults to 1. Optional.

  • profanity_filter (Boolean) —

    When true, the service will attempt to filter out profanities, replacing all but the initial character in each filtered word with asterisks, e.g. "f***". Default is false.

  • phrases (Array<String>) —

    A list of strings containing words and phrases "hints" so that the speech recognition is more likely to recognize them. See usage limits. Optional.

Returns:

  • (Array<Result>) —

    The transcribed text of audio recognized.

See Also:



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# File 'lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb', line 187

def recognize max_alternatives: nil, profanity_filter: nil, phrases: nil
  ensure_speech!

  speech.recognize self, encoding: encoding, sample_rate: sample_rate,
                         language: language,
                         max_alternatives: max_alternatives,
                         profanity_filter: profanity_filter,
                         phrases: phrases
end

#recognize_job(max_alternatives: nil, profanity_filter: nil, phrases: nil) ⇒ Job

Performs asynchronous speech recognition. Requests are processed asynchronously, meaning a Job is returned once the audio data has been sent, and can be refreshed to retrieve recognition results once the audio data has been processed.

Examples:

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech = Google::Cloud::Speech.new

audio = speech.audio "path/to/audio.raw",
                     encoding: :raw, sample_rate: 16000
job = audio.recognize_job

job.done? #=> false
job.reload!
job.done? #=> true
results = job.results

Parameters:

  • max_alternatives (String) —

    The Maximum number of recognition hypotheses to be returned. Default is 1. The service may return fewer. Valid values are 0-30. Defaults to 1. Optional.

  • profanity_filter (Boolean) —

    When true, the service will attempt to filter out profanities, replacing all but the initial character in each filtered word with asterisks, e.g. "f***". Default is false.

  • phrases (Array<String>) —

    A list of strings containing words and phrases "hints" so that the speech recognition is more likely to recognize them. See usage limits. Optional.

Returns:

  • (Job) —

    A resource represents the long-running, asynchronous processing of a speech-recognition operation.

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# File 'lib/google/cloud/speech/audio.rb', line 235

def recognize_job max_alternatives: nil, profanity_filter: nil,
                  phrases: nil
  ensure_speech!

  speech.recognize_job self, encoding: encoding,
                             sample_rate: sample_rate,
                             language: language,
                             max_alternatives: max_alternatives,
                             profanity_filter: profanity_filter,
                             phrases: phrases
end