Description:

Transcribe a short audio file and post the decoded utterances to a callback HTTP server as soon as they are decoded. This example shows how real-time streaming transcription results are provided. The jsontop output mode is used to make example results shorter and easier to read.

Command:

curl -F utterance_callback=http://10.173.215.203:5555/utterance \
     -F datahdr=WAVE -F output=jsontop -F scrubtext=true \
     -F file=@sample7.wav \
     http://vblaze_name:17171/transcribe
    

Prerequisites:

To follow this example, you must have a callback server running on a given host and port. If you do not already have a callback server, the easiest way to simulate this is to use the netcat application to listen on a specified port and display the information that it receives. The netcat application is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using the TCP or UDP protocols. The name of its executable version is typically nc or nc.exe, depending on the operating system that you are using. The netcat utility is included in most Linux distributions and is freely available for most modern operating systems.

The sample output shown later in this section was produced by a callback server that uses the netcat command, and which was started using the following Linux command-line command:

$ nc -l 5555 -k
    

The jsontop transcription of the audio file produced by the cURL command that was shown previously is the following:

{
    "source":"sample7.wav",
    "confidence":0.89,
    "donedate":"2019-01-15 15:35:15.292821",
    "recvtz":["EST",-18000],
    "text":"Thank you for calling center point energy technical support. I understand you need to report a gas leak and I have your name please my name is Joe and I thank you Mr. Know what is your address or account number my address and then one Martin Houston, Texas is there. Anyone inside the house? I know everyone is out of the house. I notice the strange smell when I got home and I called you I am sending and gas technician to your home to fix the problem. Could you give me a good number to reach you at you can call ######## zero's. Thank you, please be safe and wait for the technician to arrive call us back if anything changes. Thank you, bye. Good bye and thank you for calling center point energy.",
    "model":"eng1:callcenter",
    "recvdate":"2019-01-15 15:35:12.888907",
    "scrubbed":true
}    

Result:

The following results were produced by using netcat as the utterance_callback server. The -l option tells netcat to listen on the network port that is specified as the following argument. The -k option tells netcat to continue listening for another connection after a current connection is completed.

Note that each block of speech (utterance) is sent to the callback server independently. As with the previous example, identifying information has been replaced with hash marks ('#'), one per redacted character.

$ nc -l 5555 -k
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 410
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.94,"end":7.76,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"Thank you for calling center point energy technical support. I understand you need to report a gas leak and I have your name please","start":0.05,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.055625","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.686514","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":0,"channel":0}}}POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 357
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.83,"end":16.1,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"my name is Joe and I thank you Mr. Know what is your address or account number","start":9.78,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.056699","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.692817","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":1,"channel":0}}}POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 571
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.88,"end":41.37,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"my address and then one Martin Houston, Texas is there. Anyone inside the house? I know everyone is out of the house. I notice the strange smell when I got home and I called you I am sending and gas technician to your home to fix the problem. Could you give me a good number to reach you at","start":18.08,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.081001","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.886012","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":2,"channel":0}}}POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 325
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.81,"end":49.75,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"you can call ######## zero's.","start":43.7,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.081933","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.958482","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":3,"scrubbed":true,"channel":0}}}POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 377
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.94,"end":57.8,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"Thank you, please be safe and wait for the technician to arrive call us back if anything changes.","start":51.44,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.083021","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.966422","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":4,"channel":0}}}POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5555
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 352
Content-Type: application/json

{"source":"sample7.wav","utterance":{"confidence":0.96,"end":64.71,"recvtz":["EST",-18000],"text":"Thank you, bye. Good bye and thank you for calling center point energy.","start":60.41,"donedate":"2019-01-15 16:00:03.088625","recvdate":"2019-01-15 16:00:00.974230","metadata":{"source":"sample7.wav","model":"eng1:callcenter","uttid":5,"channel":0}}}