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Recording and transcribing a speech sample on Google colab“

Set up the recording method using java script:

# all imports
from IPython.display import Javascript
from google.colab import output
from base64 import b64decode

RECORD = """
const sleep  = time => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, time))
const b2text = blob => new Promise(resolve => {
  const reader = new FileReader()
  reader.onloadend = e => resolve(e.srcElement.result)
  reader.readAsDataURL(blob)
})
var record = time => new Promise(async resolve => {
  stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true })
  recorder = new MediaRecorder(stream)
  chunks = []
  recorder.ondataavailable = e => chunks.push(e.data)
  recorder.start()
  await sleep(time)
  recorder.onstop = async ()=>{
    blob = new Blob(chunks)
    text = await b2text(blob)
    resolve(text)
  }
  recorder.stop()
})
"""

def record(fn, sec):
  display(Javascript(RECORD))
  s = output.eval_js('record(%d)' % (sec*1000))
  b = b64decode(s.split(',')[1])
  with open(fn,'wb') as f:
    f.write(b)
  return fn

Record something:

 filename = 'felixtest.wav'
record(filename, 5)

Play it back:

import IPython
IPython.display.Audio(filename)

install Google speechbrain

%%capture
!pip install speechbrain
import speechbrain as sb

Load the ASR nodel train on libri speech:

from speechbrain.pretrained import EncoderDecoderASR
asr_model = EncoderDecoderASR.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech", savedir="pretrained_model")

And get a transcript on your audio:

asr_model.transcribe_file(audio_file )