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Hi, I'm trying to use IBM Watson BlueMix Speech-To-Text to transcribe my spoken-word audio files.

I've already signed up for a BlueMix account.
I'm on Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit.

I'm looking for the easiest way to engage BlueMix, and found this: https://github.com/rmotr/speech-to-text

So the first step is:

sudo -H pip install speech-to-text
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): speech-to-text in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): click==6.7 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from speech-to-text)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): watson-developer-cloud==0.25.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from speech-to-text)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): progressbar in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from speech-to-text)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests<3.0,>=2.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from watson-developer-cloud==0.25.1->speech-to-text)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pysolr<4.0,>=3.3 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from watson-developer-cloud==0.25.1->speech-to-text)
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.


Then this command:
speech_to_text -u myUsernameGoesHere -p myPasswordGoesHere -f html -i Audio/for_ibm_watson/Speech02.ogg transcript.html
Starting Upload.
[=========================================================================] 100%
Upload finished. Waiting for Transcript
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/speech_to_text", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(speech_to_text())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speech_to_text/command.py", line 60, in speech_to_text
formatted_output = FormatterClass().format(result)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speech_to_text/formatters.py", line 36, in format
for obj in self._parse(data))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speech_to_text/formatters.py", line 10, in _parse
for obj in data['results'])
KeyError: 'results'

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Can anyone tell me what's wrong, and how I can get it to work?

Linux Mont 18.2 comes with Python 3.6 installed.
It appears that you are trying to load a package for python 2.7

if you have installed python 2.7, this should not be a problem.

I can't find this package in Pypi, which may indicate a work in progress, or a work never finished.

It looks like formatter.py is looking for a variable named data, which is passed as an argument to class  BaseFormatter._parse
which is supplies to any of the available formatters (html, markdown, simple or original)
You are passing this with -f, so don't know what's going on, and I'm not going to reverse engineer the entire package.
This apparently cannot be resolved by the installer.

I'd try the example, and make sure that works first, but
You might want to look at other packages, see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=s...mit=search

Hi Larz60
I think I have 2.7 and 3.5 installed.

It's in PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/speech-to-text/0.0.1

This info may help:

python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2

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dpkg -l python
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii python 2.7.11-1 amd64 interactive high-level object-ori

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python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux

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dpkg -l python3
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii python3 3.5.1-3 amd64 interactive high-level object-ori
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P.S. How do I edit my OP?

to change python3 as default, from command line type:

alias python=/usr/bin/python3

you could also set:

alias python2=/usr/bin/python2.7

then you can use either

Again:
You might want to look at other packages, see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=s...mit=search

Hi Larz. Thanks again for your reply.

Are you saying that making pythone3 my default will fix my problem?

Quote:Are you saying that making python3 my default will fix my problem?

No, I'm not - Just pointing out that the load you're doing is for python 2.7, and showing how you can make python 3 the default

I tried the same command with a different, smaller file. This file is a 90KB ogg file. The other one (which gave me the error message in my OP) was a much larger 26MB ogg file.

Both files, according to "File Properties", are audio/x-vorbis+ogg.

Wtih this smaller file, there was no error.

speech_to_text -u myUsername -p myPassword -f html -i audio-file.ogg
transcript.html
Starting Upload.
[===============================================================]
100%
Upload finished. Waiting for Transcript
Speech > Text finished.

In the same folder as the ogg file was transcript.html, which had the transcript. :)

So I guess the python command works some times. I'm still not sure if it just doesn't work on large files.

The creator of this python command is investigating the matter.

I would guess that python is working all of the time, and suspect that the file is corrupt.

(Sep-18-2017, 04:37 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: [ -> ]I would guess that python is working all of the time, and suspect that the file is corrupt.

I just played the 26MB ogg file on my computer, and it plays just fine.
If it plays just fine, that means it's not corrupt, right?

I would agree with that observation!