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Watson Speech To Text

by Avatarptp

Watson Speech to Text is a cloud-native solution that uses deep-learning AI algorithms to apply knowledge about grammar, language structure, and audio/voice signal composition to create customizable speech recognition for optimal text transcription.

Requires ARC v11 (Updated 11/3/2020)

How to add the Watson Speech To Text robot skill

  1. Load the most recent release of ARC (Get ARC).
  2. Press the Project tab from the top menu bar in ARC.
  3. Press Add Robot Skill from the button ribbon bar in ARC.
  4. Choose the Audio category tab.
  5. Press the Watson Speech To Text icon to add the robot skill to your project.

Don't have a robot yet?

Follow the Getting Started Guide to build a robot and use the Watson Speech To Text robot skill.

How to use the Watson Speech To Text robot skill

Watson Speech to Text is a cloud-native solution that uses deep-learning AI algorithms to apply knowledge about grammar, language structure, and audio/voice signal composition to create customizable speech recognition for optimal text transcription.

Get Version 11

Version 11 (2020-11-03)

compatibility with ARC's new version

Version 10 (2020-10-20)

Minor changes

Version 9 (2020-10-08)

I decided to break the plugin in multiple plugins to help troubleshooting, improve and fix bugs. This plugin will become Watson Speech to Text.

Documentation (WIP) You will need an IBM cloud account (Free Tier)

Watson Speech To Text: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-speech-to-text

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Register a new account: https://cloud.ibm.com/registration

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login to your account: https://cloud.ibm.com/login

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Dashboard:

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Press "Create Resource" Search for Speech To Text resource:

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The Lite plan gets you started with 500 minutes per month at no cost.
after creating or managing the service's credentials:

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you are ready to configure the plugin.

Plugin Configuration:

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Press "change":

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  1. You will need to configure the model i.e. Language choose high rates i.e. 16000 for better quality capture:

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  2. You will need to select a VAD (Voice Activity Detection) engine, this engine handles the speech detection the plugin supports two different engines: Speech API available on Microsoft Windows and WebRTC engine.

Windows VAD engine configuration:

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You will need to choose an available Microsoft Speech Recognizer. If your windows does not have one available you will need to use the WebRTC VAD engine:

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Modes are: 0-Quality, 1-LowBitRate, 2-Aggressive, 3-Very Aggressive. Higher the value more aggressive the WebRTC engine will try to match the speech detection, but with an additional cost more false positives.

Speech Tab:

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  1. The plugin will be listening i.e. Capturing Audio when the Listening checkbox is checked)
  2. The plugin will show audio visualization when the Visualize checkbox is checked To listen and visualize you don't need a Watson service account configured.

To use the Watson cloud services you will need to check the STT (Speech To Text) checkbox.

Green Areas are flagged with speech and orange areas are silence / noise.


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#1  

When I load the skill this error appears:

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what am I wrong?

thanks!

PRO
USA
#3  

@lucdag: I'll update the plugin during the weekend.

PRO
Canada
#4  

Nice thanks PTP I really appreciate you keeping this plugin updated :-)

PRO
USA
#5  

quick feedback: I got delayed with some issues relating to the development tools upgrade, but I'm almost done.

@Nink: No problem.

There are new improvements, one of them is a translation service, I plan to add to the plugin.

#6  

Hello. I am waiting for the update as well.

Thanks for all of your good work!

PRO
USA
#7  

New version released ! Still doing tests and trying to catch new bugs.

PRO
USA
#8  

New version released, please check the "breaking changes".

I'll start releasing the other Watson services plugins soon: TextToSpeech, Visual Recognition, Assistant and Language Translator