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@picovoice/cheetah-node-demo
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Picovoice Cheetah Node.js file-based and microphone demos
Made in Vancouver, Canada by Picovoice
Cheetah is an on-device streaming speech-to-text engine. Cheetah is:
npm install -g @picovoice/cheetah-node-demo
Cheetah requires a valid Picovoice AccessKey at initialization. AccessKey acts as your credentials when using Cheetah SDKs.
You can get your AccessKey for free. Make sure to keep your AccessKey secret.
Signup or Login to Picovoice Console to get your AccessKey.
Run the following in the terminal:
cheetah_demo_file --access_key ${ACCESS_KEY} --input_audio_file_path ${AUDIO_PATH}
Replace ${ACCESS_KEY} with yours obtained from Picovoice Console and ${AUDIO_PATH} with a path to an audio file you
wish to transcribe.
You need a working microphone connected to your machine for this demo. Run the following in the terminal:
cheetah_demo_mic --access_key ${ACCESS_KEY}
Replace ${ACCESS_KEY} with yours obtained from Picovoice Console.
Now start recording and when done press ENTER key.
FAQs
Picovoice Cheetah Node.js file-based and microphone demos
The npm package @picovoice/cheetah-node-demo receives a total of 24 weekly downloads. As such, @picovoice/cheetah-node-demo popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @picovoice/cheetah-node-demo demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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