Overview of the batch transcription process

• Overview of the batch transcription process
• API usage with HTTP
  • Open the terminal
  • Define the app id
  • Request an authorization token
  • Queue an audio file for transcription
  • Query the result of the transcription operation
• API Reference

To transcribe multiple audio files, repeat steps 2 and 3.

API usage with HTTP

This example transcribes the following sample audio file and prints the results of speech-to-text operation in the terminal.

Open the terminal

Start by opening a bash, sh or zsh shell in an Unix-like environment (OS X, Linux or Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Define the app id

Store a valid app id from Speechly Dashboard in a shell variable. You can use any English, speech-to-text only app configuration.

# Copy a valid app id from Speechly Dashboard
SPEECHLY_APP_ID=my_app_id

Request an authorization token

Call Login method from speechly.identity.v2.IdentityAPI with curl.

curl -X POST https://api.speechly.com/speechly.identity.v2.IdentityAPI/Login \
  -H 'Context-Type: application/json' \
  -d \
'{
  "deviceId": "'`uuidgen`'",
  "application": {
    "appId": "'$SPEECHLY_APP_ID'"
  }
}'

Copy the authorization token’s value from the response and store it in a shell variable for the following requests.

SPEECHLY_AUTH_TOKEN=my_token_value

Queue an audio file for transcription

Call ProcessAudio method from speechly.slu.v1.BatchAPI to queue an audio file URI for processing.

# Send an audio file for processing
curl -X POST https://api.speechly.com/speechly.slu.v1.BatchAPI/ProcessAudio \
  -H 'Context-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'authorization: Bearer '$SPEECHLY_AUTH_TOKEN \
  -d \
'[{
  "appId": "'$SPEECHLY_APP_ID'",
  "config": {
    "encoding": 1,
    "sampleRateHertz": 16000,
    "channels": 1
  },
  "uri": "https://dreamy-cori-a02de1.netlify.app/test1_en.wav"
}]'

Copy the operation id from the response and store it in a shell variable for querying the progress and transcription results.

SPEECHLY_OPERATION_ID=my_operation_id

Query the result of the transcription operation

Call QueryStatus method from speechly.slu.v1.BatchAPI to get current status of the transcription operation. Call the method periodically until status goes to STATUS_DONE.

curl -X POST https://api.speechly.com/speechly.slu.v1.BatchAPI/QueryStatus \
  -H 'Context-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'authorization: Bearer '$SPEECHLY_AUTH_TOKEN \
  -d \
'{
  "id": "'$SPEECHLY_OPERATION_ID'"
}'

The response for a finished operation contains a transcripts array with all the detected words:

// Response JSON
{
 "operation": {
  "id": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
  "status": "STATUS_DONE",
  "appId": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
  "deviceId": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
  "transcripts": [
   {
    "word": "BANANAS",
    "index": 0,
    "startTime": 300,
    "endTime": 1300
   },
   {
    "word": "APPLES",
    "index": 1,
    "startTime": 2050,
    "endTime": 3120
   }
  ]
 }
}

API Reference

Batch API Reference (gRPC)