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Speech/Sound Module Q's
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I'm attempting to convert speech to text using speech's new recognize function, but when I pass a .m4a audio file (recorded using sound.recorder) through the recognize function, it gives a "corrupt" error. Am I using the wrong kind of audio file or something like that?
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Can you post the code you've used?
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import speech, sound, time
sound.Recorder("audio").record()
time.sleep(3)
sound.Recorder("audio").stop()
text = speech.recognize("audio.m4a")I'm also unable to play back the audio using sound.Player, so it's probably me doing something wrong.
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The problem is that you're creating two separate
Recorder
objects instead of stopping the one you've created for recording.This should work better:
import speech, sound, time rec = sound.Recorder("audio.m4a") rec.record() time.sleep(3) rec.stop() result = speech.recognize("audio.m4a") print(result)
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@omz this works! Thank you so much!
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Hi - I'm wondering how you knew about sound.Recorder. I'm looking at the documentation at
http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/sound.html
which doesn't mention it at all. (I also noticed that sound.play_effect accepts two additional undocumented arguments. I haven't figured out what the fourth does; the fifth appears to cause the sound to loop until stopped if it's anything other than 0.)
Is there additional documentation or a forum post describing sound.Recorder that I'm missing?
Thanks!
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@oakandsage The documentation on the website is a bit outdated I think. You should look at the offline documentation inside the app, that one is usually up-to-date.
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Oh! Thank you -- I had assumed the in app documentation was accessing either the website or a cached copy of it! But I see now it is more complete.
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