Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API

This tutorial will walk through using Google Cloud Speech API to transcribe a large audio file.

All code and sample files can be found in speech-to-text GitHub repo.

Transcribe large audio files using Python & our Cloud Speech API. @akras14 shows how https://t.co/dY56lmE0TD

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Sample Results

This approach works, but I found that result will vary greatly based on the quality of input.

Transcribing a Reading by My Wife

I asked my wife to read something out loud as if she was dictating to Siri for about 1.5 minutes. She is a native English speaker and we recorded using a microphone on iPhone 6s.

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