Transcribe Speech to Text with Python for Free
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2 min readMar 30, 2022
Amazon Transcribe, Google Speech-to-Text, Azure Cognitive Services, IBM Watson, AssemblyAI, DeepGram, Speechmatics, and Rev, … all provide APIs to transcribe audio files. You should give Picovoice Leopard a try not only because it offers free transcription but also because it is:
- Private — All voice processing runs locally
- Accurate [1]
- Compact and Computationally Efficient [2]
- Cross-Platform — Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA Jetson
You can get started with 3 lines of code!
1- Install
Install Leopard from a terminal:
pip3 install pvleoparddemo2- Try it
Sign up for Picovoice Console using GitHub (or email) and grab your free AccessKey (no credit card required):
Run the microphone demo from the terminal:
leopard_demo_mic --access_key ${YOUR_ACCESS_KEY}
3- Build
Create an instance of Leopard:
from pvleopard import *
o = create(access_key=${YOUR_ACCESS_KEY})
Transcribe an audio file:
transcript, words = o.process_file(${YOUR_AUDIO_FILE_PATH})
print(transcript)
