STT are independent projects so they can be developed under a github project. Anyone can clone them and place them under the STT repository and reuse them or directly install them
Creating a new STT must follow some rules:
The STT inherits from the SpeechRecognition coming from the Utils file in the STT package.
from kalliope.stt.Utils import SpeechRecognition
class Google(SpeechRecognition):
The STT has a constructor init which is the entry point. The constructor has an incoming callback to call once we get the text. The constructor has a **kwargs argument which is corresponding to the Dict of incoming variables:values defined either in the settings file.
The STT must init itself first.
Attach the incoming callback to the self.main_controller_callback attribute. This callback come from the main controller and will receive the text at the end of the process
Obtain audio from the microphone in the constructor. (Note : we mostly use the speech_recognition library)
Set your callback method into the mother class with self.set_callback(self.google_callback)
. This callback is the one which will process the audio into a text.
Use self.start_processing() from the mother class to get an audio from the microphone or read the audio file path if provided. The mother class will give the audio stream to the callback you've set before.
The callback method must implement two arguments: recognizer and audio. The audio argument contains the stream caught by the microphone or read from an audio file path
Do magic stuff with the audio in order to get a string that contains the translated text
Once you get the text, let give it to the main_controller_callback method received in the constructor by calling it with the text string as argument self.main_controller_callback(audio_to_text)
def __init__(self, callback=None, **kwargs):
# give the audio file path to process directly to the mother class if exist
SpeechRecognition.__init__(self, kwargs.get('audio_file_path', None))
# here is the main controller callback. We will return the text at the end of the process
self.main_controller_callback = callback
self.argument_from_settings = kwargs.get('argument_from_settings', None)
# give our callback
self.set_callback(self.my_callback)
# start processing, record a sample from the microphone if no audio file path provided, else read the file
self.start_processing()
def my_callback((self, recognizer, audio):
# ---------------------------------------------
# do amazing code to translate the audio stream into text
# 'audio' contain stream caught by the microphone
# ---------------------------------------------
# at the end of the process, send the text into the received callback method
self.main_controller_callback(audio_to_text)
Example of STT structure
mystt/
├── __init__.py
├── mystt.py
├── dna.yml
├── install.yml
└── README.md
Example of STT code