The purpose of this script is to leverage the Azure Speech API to transcribe an audio stream. This script targets usage on Windows machines.

Audio Stream - By default, this is your microphone. You can pass your computer's audio output to a "microphone" input by using software such as Voicemeeter (https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/)

Transcription - The transcription will be printed to screen and written/appended to the .txt file passed as an argument.

Instructions:

1. Git clone this repo.
2. Create a virtual environment:

   py -m venv env
   

3. Activate environment

   env\Scripts\activate
   

4. Install requirements

   pip install azure-cognitiveservices-speech
   

5. In the same directory as the script, create a keys.json file with your Azure Speech API key and region. region syntax examples: eastus2, westus

   {
       "speech_key":"YOUR KEY HERE",
       "speech_region":"YOUR REGION HERE"
   }
   

6. Script usage:

   # Syntax is:
   # speech_transcription.py <filename.txt>, example:
   py speech_transcription.py transcript.txt
   

7. Press ctrl+c to exit the program.

Sources: Sample code from https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/samples/python/console used as a base.