speaker_text_api

SpeakerText Gem

A gem to automate transcription of audio and video media using the SpeakerText service and SpeakerText API.

Overview

Audio and video media hosted on the Internet are not well indexed by search engines and thus not easily searchable. For a fee, the SpeakerText.com service produces text transcripts of audio and video content that is available on the Internet (on a private website or a media hosting service such as YouTube). These text transcripts can be used to augment media, thus making them searchable and indexed by search engines. Using the SpeakerText video player, the trascripts can also be used as subtitles increasing access of audio and video media to hearing impared individuals.

Requires

• A SpeakerText account and API key
• Credits purchased through the SpeakerText website
• HTTParty gem
• UUIDTools gem
• Ruby >= 1.9.2

Usage Examples

Install

gem install speaker_text_api

Initialize the API with a key

require 'speaker_text_api'
st = SpeakerTextApi.new(your_api_key)

Submit a media file URL for transcription

success, transcript_id = st.transcribe(url: public_url_of_media_file)

Submit a media file hosted on a platform (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud)

success, transcript_id = st.transcribe(platform: 'youtube', id: youtube_video_id)

Check the status of the transcription process

success, status = st.transcript_status(id: transcript_id)

Request the completed transcripts

success, content = st.transcript(id: transcript_id)