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Generate a transcription from a microphone using an AWS SDK - AWS SDK Code Examples

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There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Generate a transcription from a microphone using an AWS SDK

The following code example shows how to generate a transcription from a microphone using Amazon Transcribe streaming.

Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

public class TranscribeStreamingDemoApp { private static final Region REGION = Region.US_EAST_1; private static TranscribeStreamingAsyncClient client; public static void main(String[] args) throws URISyntaxException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, LineUnavailableException { client = TranscribeStreamingAsyncClient.builder() .credentialsProvider(getCredentials()) .region(REGION) .build(); CompletableFuture<Void> result = client.startStreamTranscription(getRequest(16_000), new AudioStreamPublisher(getStreamFromMic()), getResponseHandler()); result.get(); client.close(); } private static InputStream getStreamFromMic() throws LineUnavailableException { // Signed PCM AudioFormat with 16kHz, 16 bit sample size, mono int sampleRate = 16000; AudioFormat format = new AudioFormat(sampleRate, 16, 1, true, false); DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(TargetDataLine.class, format); if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(info)) { System.out.println("Line not supported"); System.exit(0); } TargetDataLine line = (TargetDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info); line.open(format); line.start(); InputStream audioStream = new AudioInputStream(line); return audioStream; } private static AwsCredentialsProvider getCredentials() { return DefaultCredentialsProvider.create(); } private static StartStreamTranscriptionRequest getRequest(Integer mediaSampleRateHertz) { return StartStreamTranscriptionRequest.builder() .languageCode(LanguageCode.EN_US.toString()) .mediaEncoding(MediaEncoding.PCM) .mediaSampleRateHertz(mediaSampleRateHertz) .build(); } private static StartStreamTranscriptionResponseHandler getResponseHandler() { return StartStreamTranscriptionResponseHandler.builder() .onResponse(r -> { System.out.println("Received Initial response"); }) .onError(e -> { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw)); System.out.println("Error Occurred: " + sw); }) .onComplete(() -> { System.out.println("=== All records stream successfully ==="); }) .subscriber(event -> { List<Result> results = ((TranscriptEvent) event).transcript().results(); if (results.size() > 0) { if (!results.get(0).alternatives().get(0).transcript().isEmpty()) { System.out.println(results.get(0).alternatives().get(0).transcript()); } } }) .build(); } private static class AudioStreamPublisher implements Publisher<AudioStream> { private static Subscription currentSubscription; private final InputStream inputStream; private AudioStreamPublisher(InputStream inputStream) { this.inputStream = inputStream; } @Override public void subscribe(Subscriber<? super AudioStream> s) { if (currentSubscription == null) { currentSubscription = new SubscriptionImpl(s, inputStream); } else { currentSubscription.cancel(); currentSubscription = new SubscriptionImpl(s, inputStream); } s.onSubscribe(currentSubscription); } } public static class SubscriptionImpl implements Subscription { private static final int CHUNK_SIZE_IN_BYTES = 1024; private final Subscriber<? super AudioStream> subscriber; private final InputStream inputStream; private final ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1); private final AtomicLong demand = new AtomicLong(0); SubscriptionImpl(Subscriber<? super AudioStream> s, InputStream inputStream) { this.subscriber = s; this.inputStream = inputStream; } @Override public void request(long n) { if (n <= 0) { subscriber.onError(new IllegalArgumentException("Demand must be positive")); } demand.getAndAdd(n); executor.submit(() -> { try { do { ByteBuffer audioBuffer = getNextEvent(); if (audioBuffer.remaining() > 0) { AudioEvent audioEvent = audioEventFromBuffer(audioBuffer); subscriber.onNext(audioEvent); } else { subscriber.onComplete(); break; } } while (demand.decrementAndGet() > 0); } catch (Exception e) { subscriber.onError(e); } }); } @Override public void cancel() { executor.shutdown(); } private ByteBuffer getNextEvent() { ByteBuffer audioBuffer = null; byte[] audioBytes = new byte[CHUNK_SIZE_IN_BYTES]; int len = 0; try { len = inputStream.read(audioBytes); if (len <= 0) { audioBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(0); } else { audioBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(audioBytes, 0, len); } } catch (IOException e) { throw new UncheckedIOException(e); } return audioBuffer; } private AudioEvent audioEventFromBuffer(ByteBuffer bb) { return AudioEvent.builder() .audioChunk(SdkBytes.fromByteBuffer(bb)) .build(); } } }
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

public class TranscribeStreamingDemoApp { private static final Region REGION = Region.US_EAST_1; private static TranscribeStreamingAsyncClient client; public static void main(String[] args) throws URISyntaxException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, LineUnavailableException { client = TranscribeStreamingAsyncClient.builder() .credentialsProvider(getCredentials()) .region(REGION) .build(); CompletableFuture<Void> result = client.startStreamTranscription(getRequest(16_000), new AudioStreamPublisher(getStreamFromMic()), getResponseHandler()); result.get(); client.close(); } private static InputStream getStreamFromMic() throws LineUnavailableException { // Signed PCM AudioFormat with 16kHz, 16 bit sample size, mono int sampleRate = 16000; AudioFormat format = new AudioFormat(sampleRate, 16, 1, true, false); DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(TargetDataLine.class, format); if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(info)) { System.out.println("Line not supported"); System.exit(0); } TargetDataLine line = (TargetDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info); line.open(format); line.start(); InputStream audioStream = new AudioInputStream(line); return audioStream; } private static AwsCredentialsProvider getCredentials() { return DefaultCredentialsProvider.create(); } private static StartStreamTranscriptionRequest getRequest(Integer mediaSampleRateHertz) { return StartStreamTranscriptionRequest.builder() .languageCode(LanguageCode.EN_US.toString()) .mediaEncoding(MediaEncoding.PCM) .mediaSampleRateHertz(mediaSampleRateHertz) .build(); } private static StartStreamTranscriptionResponseHandler getResponseHandler() { return StartStreamTranscriptionResponseHandler.builder() .onResponse(r -> { System.out.println("Received Initial response"); }) .onError(e -> { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw)); System.out.println("Error Occurred: " + sw); }) .onComplete(() -> { System.out.println("=== All records stream successfully ==="); }) .subscriber(event -> { List<Result> results = ((TranscriptEvent) event).transcript().results(); if (results.size() > 0) { if (!results.get(0).alternatives().get(0).transcript().isEmpty()) { System.out.println(results.get(0).alternatives().get(0).transcript()); } } }) .build(); } private static class AudioStreamPublisher implements Publisher<AudioStream> { private static Subscription currentSubscription; private final InputStream inputStream; private AudioStreamPublisher(InputStream inputStream) { this.inputStream = inputStream; } @Override public void subscribe(Subscriber<? super AudioStream> s) { if (currentSubscription == null) { currentSubscription = new SubscriptionImpl(s, inputStream); } else { currentSubscription.cancel(); currentSubscription = new SubscriptionImpl(s, inputStream); } s.onSubscribe(currentSubscription); } } public static class SubscriptionImpl implements Subscription { private static final int CHUNK_SIZE_IN_BYTES = 1024; private final Subscriber<? super AudioStream> subscriber; private final InputStream inputStream; private final ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1); private final AtomicLong demand = new AtomicLong(0); SubscriptionImpl(Subscriber<? super AudioStream> s, InputStream inputStream) { this.subscriber = s; this.inputStream = inputStream; } @Override public void request(long n) { if (n <= 0) { subscriber.onError(new IllegalArgumentException("Demand must be positive")); } demand.getAndAdd(n); executor.submit(() -> { try { do { ByteBuffer audioBuffer = getNextEvent(); if (audioBuffer.remaining() > 0) { AudioEvent audioEvent = audioEventFromBuffer(audioBuffer); subscriber.onNext(audioEvent); } else { subscriber.onComplete(); break; } } while (demand.decrementAndGet() > 0); } catch (Exception e) { subscriber.onError(e); } }); } @Override public void cancel() { executor.shutdown(); } private ByteBuffer getNextEvent() { ByteBuffer audioBuffer = null; byte[] audioBytes = new byte[CHUNK_SIZE_IN_BYTES]; int len = 0; try { len = inputStream.read(audioBytes); if (len <= 0) { audioBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(0); } else { audioBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(audioBytes, 0, len); } } catch (IOException e) { throw new UncheckedIOException(e); } return audioBuffer; } private AudioEvent audioEventFromBuffer(ByteBuffer bb) { return AudioEvent.builder() .audioChunk(SdkBytes.fromByteBuffer(bb)) .build(); } } }
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