DictationHelper

Description

Automatic caption generation.

No feedback when practicing listening skills? Too many "squanchy" words blocking oral comprehension? Let DictationHelper salvage you!

This python script aims to produce caption of a input audio or video file that helps you to understand the basic meaning of the material using API provided by iFlyTek.

File formats that passed test: mp3, mp4.

Supported language

Chinese, Chinese dialects, English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Thai, Arabia, Korean, ... (configurable in iFlyTek console). What a multi-language speaker !

But this script is monolingual during one test. That's to say, it can only understand one preset language at one input.

Requirements

Python module

In addition to the base environment of Anaconda 3, the following modules are required:

name	version
websocket	0.2.1

FFmpeg

Also, installation of FFmpeg is necessary. Click http://ffmpeg.org/ to download suitable version on your platform. Make sure that ffmpeg and ffprobe is callable by your shell (If you are a Windows user, add the bin folder of ffmpeg to your system path). Example :

PS E:\Files\Python\Project\DictationHelper> ffmpeg

ffmpeg version git-2020-06-03-b6d7c4c Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9.3.1 (GCC) 20200523
  ...
  ...
  ...
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

IFlyTek API

Sign in Iflytek , go to console (upper right) and create a new APP instance of "语音听写（流式版）". Here you can set your language configuration for later dictation.

Usage

Set the capitalized parameters in head of your script to start use.

APPID      = 'xxx'
APIKEY     = 'xxx'
APISECRET  = 'xxx'
STREAMPATH = r'xxx'
LANGUAGE   = 'fr_fr' # zh_cn, en_us, fr_fr

Where APPID, APIKEY, APISECRET is provided in iFlyTek console, STREAMPATH is the path to your audio/video file, and LANGUAGE is your preferred wanted language.

Example

Author

Xp-speit2018 : hantjscnxp@outlook.com

License

MIT

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