watson-streaming 0.0.2

Speech to text transcription in real-time using IBM Watson

Speech to text transcription from your microphone in real-time using IBM Watson.

Installing

1. This project depends on PortAudio - a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library. Install it first.

2. Download the credentials.json file from IBM Watson and put it in your current working directory.

3. pip install watson-streaming and you are ready to go!

Using from the command line

watson-streaming  # And start talking

Using as a library

from watson_streaming import transcribe


# Write whatever you want in your callback function
def example_callback(msg):
    msg = json.loads(msg)
    if 'results' in msg:
        transcript = msg['results'][0]['alternatives'][0]['transcript']
        print(transcript)


# Provide a dictionary of Watson input and output features.
# For example
settings = {
    'inactivity_timeout': -1,  # Don't kill me after 30 seconds
    'interim_results': True,
}


# You can't ask for a simpler API than this!
transcribe(example_callback, settings, 'credentials.json')