Speech-to-Text

IBM Watson

2 min readSep 30, 2021

Recently I have used IBM Watson for speech-to-text, how I used it is as follows:

Installation

pip install --upgrade ibm-watsonpip install --upgrade watson-developer-cloudsudo -H pip install --ignore-installed six ibm-watson

Getting credentials

Go to https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-speech-to-text
Choose to Get started free
Choose the Lite plan
Login
Choose Create
Go to the Manage option on the left-hand side and copy the API key.

The Code

I have used the following file by replacing my API key and changing the input audio file.

python-sdk/speech_to_text_v1.py at master · watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk

snake: Client library to use the IBM Watson services in Python and available in pip as watson-developer-cloud …

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It provides the output including the start and end of each word along with confidence. It also provides the complete script along with the overall confidence.

References

GitHub - watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk: Client library to use the IBM Watson services in Python…

Python client library to quickly get started with the various Watson APIs services. On 9 August 2021, IBM announced the…