Speech recognition with Hugging Face

Speech recognition is a transformative technology that converts spoken language into text. Hugging Face, a prominent AI company offers a comprehensive library of pre-trained models for various natural language processing tasks, including speech recognition. By integrating Hugging Face's models with your applications, you can automate and enhance the transcription and analysis of audio content.

How does the integration work?

You can utilize a pre-built Appwrite function template to add speech recognition with Hugging Face to your app. This will allow you to upload an audio file to an Appwrite storage bucket and store the recognized speech in an Appwrite collection as text.

How to implement

To implement the Hugging Face speech recognition function, there are several steps you must complete:

Step 1: Sign up for Hugging Face

First, you must sign up for a Hugging Face account. Once your account is set up, visit your profile settings, head to the Access Tokens page, and create an access token with the Inference permissions. Save this token for further usage.

Step 2: Create the Appwrite Function

For this step, you must create an account on Appwrite Cloud or self-host Appwrite if you haven’t already. If you decide to self-host Appwrite, there are additional setup steps to use Appwrite Function templates.

Head over to the Appwrite console, navigate to the Functions page, click the Templates tab, and search for the Speech Recognition function template.

During the setup process, click the checkbox to generate an Appwrite API key on completion and add the Hugging Face access token in the Variables step. If you are self-hosting Appwrite, click the optional variables dropdown and update the Appwrite endpoint to your instance’s publicly accessible endpoint.

Then, create a new repository with the default branch and root directory settings. You can edit this repository later to update the function logic.

Step 3: Test the Function

Once all the steps are complete, it is time to test the function! Use the Appwrite console or one of Appwrite’s SDKs to upload an audio file to the speech_recognition storage bucket. If successful, you will find a response saved in the speech_recognition collection in the ai database in the following format:

audio	speech
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The audio attribute contains the ID of the audio file uploaded to the speech_recognition storage bucket, and the speech attribute contains the response from Hugging Face.