Speech/Sound Module Q's

[jpython6]

I'm attempting to convert speech to text using speech's new recognize function, but when I pass a .m4a audio file (recorded using sound.recorder) through the recognize function, it gives a "corrupt" error. Am I using the wrong kind of audio file or something like that?

[omz]

Can you post the code you've used?

[jpython6]

@omz

import speech, sound, time

sound.Recorder("audio").record()
time.sleep(3)
sound.Recorder("audio").stop()
text = speech.recognize("audio.m4a")

I'm also unable to play back the audio using sound.Player, so it's probably me doing something wrong.

[omz]

The problem is that you're creating two separate Recorder objects instead of stopping the one you've created for recording.

This should work better:

import speech, sound, time
rec = sound.Recorder("audio.m4a")
rec.record()
time.sleep(3)
rec.stop()
result = speech.recognize("audio.m4a")
print(result)

[jpython6]

@omz this works! Thank you so much!

[oakandsage]

Hi - I'm wondering how you knew about sound.Recorder. I'm looking at the documentation at

http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/sound.html

which doesn't mention it at all. (I also noticed that sound.play_effect accepts two additional undocumented arguments. I haven't figured out what the fourth does; the fifth appears to cause the sound to loop until stopped if it's anything other than 0.)

Is there additional documentation or a forum post describing sound.Recorder that I'm missing?

Thanks!

[dgelessus]

@oakandsage The documentation on the website is a bit outdated I think. You should look at the offline documentation inside the app, that one is usually up-to-date.

[oakandsage]

Oh! Thank you -- I had assumed the in app documentation was accessing either the website or a cached copy of it! But I see now it is more complete.

[madmax]

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