In this tutorial, we will create a Word Document from a YouTube Video using the automatic speech recognition service from Amazon called, AWS Transcribe.
We will upload an mp3 file to the AWS transcribe service, which will then give us a JSON file containing the text of the audio file, and then we will take that JSON file and convert it to a word document.
Prerequisites:
You will need an AWS account; you can click here to create an account for free.
You will need an MP3 version of the file, there are many ways to download a youtube video to MP3, you can follow my guide to do it quickly.
You need to create an S3 bucket on AWS, look at a bucket essentially as a storage pot on S3. In essence, S3 is an AWS service and inside of that service, you can create yourself little storage pockets/folders, called buckets.
To create a bucket
The Create bucket wizard opens.
Upload your MP3 file to your bucket, give it a nice name so that when you come back to this in 6 months’ time you still know what it was about.
Now we need to transcribe the file, in essence; you will tell AWS where the file is (on S3) and then you will tell AWS what to do with the file, in this case, we want to transcribe it.
Go here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/home
Then click on create job.
Give it a descriptive name
Leave the model type as “General model”
Click on browse S3 and choose the file you uploaded in step 2
Leave the Output data option as “Service-managed S3 Bucket”, because we will download the file immediately, we do not need AWS to keep it forever.
Now wait for the job to finish, this normally takes about 10 minutes for a 30-minute-long file.
When the file is finish, click on it
Then on this screen that appears click on “Download full transcript” it will be available in JSON format, we will convert that to a Word document in Step 5
We need to store the JSON file and our python app somewhere, so create a folder on your desktop and call it something descriptive like “Transcriptions”.
Just in case you missed it, on the AWS Transcription Jobs screen, click on the transcribed file after it completed and a new screen will appear, now on that new screen click on download full transcript and then save that JSON file in the folder you just created.
Rename that JSON file to something that you will remember, for example interview.json
Download Python by clicking on this link: Download Python 3 for windows
Now install that file, when the window pops up, click on “Add Python to PATH”
Open CMD (Inside the search field from your taskbar, enter command or cmd. Then, click or tap on the Command Prompt result.)
Now type in the following command:
pip install tscribe
This will install the library that we need. Wait for this to finish, it will look something like this:
C:\Users\erikthiart\Desktop\aws>pip install tscribe
Collecting tscribe
Downloading tscribe-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (7.2 kB)
Collecting python-docx
Downloading python-docx-0.8.10.tar.gz (5.5 MB)
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Downloading webvtt_py-0.4.5-py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)
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Downloading matplotlib-3.3.1-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (8.5 MB)
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Requirement already satisfied: lxml>=2.3.2 in c:\users\erikthiart\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python38\site-packages (from python-docx->tscribe) (4.5.1)
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Installing collected packages: python-docx, docopt, webvtt-py, pytz, numpy, six, python-dateutil, pandas, pillow, cycler, pyparsing, kiwisolver, matplotlib, tscribe
Running setup.py install for python-docx ... done
Running setup.py install for docopt ... done
Successfully installed cycler-0.10.0 docopt-0.6.2 kiwisolver-1.2.0 matplotlib-3.3.1 numpy-1.19.1 pandas-1.1.0 pillow-7.2.0 pyparsing-2.4.7 python-dateutil-2.8.1 python-docx-0.8.10 pytz-2020.1 six-1.15.0 tscribe-1.3.1 webvtt-py-0.4.5
C:\Users\erikthiart\Desktop\aws>
Create a text file in the folder on your desktop that you created in Step 4.
Call the text file app.py
Now open that file with Notepad and copy and paste the following inside:
import tscribe
tscribe.write("interview.json", format="docx", save_as=" interview.docx")
Open CMD again and then paste the following command in order to get to this folder you created in Step 4.
cd C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\Transcriptions
Type it exactly like that (copy it), do not change anything, that \%username%\
part is intentional, it will essentially resolve to whatever your username is, which I won’t know since I am sitting in Cape Town and do not know your PC name.
If you did it correctly then you will see you are successfully inside that folder.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.1016]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\erikthiart>cd C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\Transcriptions
C:\Users\erikthiart\Desktop\Transcriptions>
Now type the following command in CMD
python app.py
You will see the following after a little while.
interview.docx written in x seconds.
That means it worked! Congratulations, you can now look inside that folder and you will see a word document containing your text translation of the audio file.
Transcription of Omeshnee: Begotten from Future Cities Africa
Transcription using AWS Transcribe automatic speech recognition and the ‘tscribe’ python package.
Document produced on Sunday 16 August 2020 at 18:03:15.
Confidence | Count | Percentage |
98% – 100% | 1809 | 77.94% |
90% – 97% | 127 | 5.47% |
80% – 89% | 62 | 2.67% |
70% – 79% | 37 | 1.59% |
60% – 69% | 30 | 1.29% |
50% – 59% | 27 | 1.16% |
40% – 49% | 14 | 0.6% |
30% – 39% | 8 | 0.34% |
20% – 29% | 1 | 0.04% |
10% – 19% | 0 | 0.0% |
0% – 9% | 0 | 0.0% |
Additional Help:
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