Transcribe a file with word-level confidence (beta)

Transcribe an audio file, returning the confidence level for each word.

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Java

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/**
 * Transcribe a local audio file with word level confidence
 *
 * @param fileName the path to the local audio file
 */
public static void transcribeWordLevelConfidence(String fileName) throws Exception {
  Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
  byte[] content = Files.readAllBytes(path);

  try (SpeechClient speechClient = SpeechClient.create()) {
    RecognitionAudio recognitionAudio =
        RecognitionAudio.newBuilder().setContent(ByteString.copyFrom(content)).build();
    // Configure request to enable word level confidence
    RecognitionConfig config =
        RecognitionConfig.newBuilder()
            .setEncoding(AudioEncoding.LINEAR16)
            .setSampleRateHertz(16000)
            .setLanguageCode("en-US")
            .setEnableWordConfidence(true)
            .build();
    // Perform the transcription request
    RecognizeResponse recognizeResponse = speechClient.recognize(config, recognitionAudio);

    // Print out the results
    for (SpeechRecognitionResult result : recognizeResponse.getResultsList()) {
      // There can be several alternative transcripts for a given chunk of speech. Just use the
      // first (most likely) one here.
      SpeechRecognitionAlternative alternative = result.getAlternatives(0);
      System.out.format("Transcript : %s\n", alternative.getTranscript());
      System.out.format(
          "First Word and Confidence : %s %s \n",
          alternative.getWords(0).getWord(), alternative.getWords(0).getConfidence());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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const fs = require('fs');

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const speech = require('@google-cloud/speech').v1p1beta1;

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const fileName = 'Local path to audio file, e.g. /path/to/audio.raw';

const config = {
  encoding: 'FLAC',
  sampleRateHertz: 16000,
  languageCode: 'en-US',
  enableWordConfidence: true,
};

const audio = {
  content: fs.readFileSync(fileName).toString('base64'),
};

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

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

console.log('Word-Level-Confidence:');
const words = response.results.map(result => result.alternatives[0]);
words[0].words.forEach(a => {
  console.log(` word: ${a.word}, confidence: ${a.confidence}`);
});

Python

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from google.cloud import speech_v1p1beta1 as speech

client = speech.SpeechClient()

speech_file = "resources/Google_Gnome.wav"

with open(speech_file, "rb") as audio_file:
    content = audio_file.read()

audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(content=content)

config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
    encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
    sample_rate_hertz=16000,
    language_code="en-US",
    enable_word_confidence=True,
)

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

for i, result in enumerate(response.results):
    alternative = result.alternatives[0]
    print("-" * 20)
    print(f"First alternative of result {i}")
    print(f"Transcript: {alternative.transcript}")
    print(
        "First Word and Confidence: ({}, {})".format(
            alternative.words[0].word, alternative.words[0].confidence
        )
    )

return response.results

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