An R client for the Speechmatics speech-to-text API.

Installation

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("thisisnic/speechmatics")

Setup

Set your API key as an environment variable:

Sys.setenv(SPEECHMATICS_API_KEY = "your-key-here")

Or add it to your .Renviron:

SPEECHMATICS_API_KEY=your-key-here

Usage

library(speechmatics)
# Transcribe an audio file (writes `./testrecording.txt`)
audio <- system.file("extdata", "testrecording.mp3", package = "speechmatics")
sm_transcribe(audio)
#> ✔ Submitting 'testrecording.mp3'
#> ℹ Job ID: "2om9psu1np"
#> ✔ Waiting for transcription [5.8s]
#> ✔ Saved to testrecording.txt
# Specify output path
sm_transcribe(audio, "output.txt")
#> ✔ Submitting 'testrecording.mp3'
#> ℹ Job ID: "2om9psu1np"
#> ✔ Waiting for transcription [5.8s]
#> ✔ Saved to output.txt
# Enhanced quality with speaker diarization
sm_transcribe(
  audio,
  config = sm_transcription_config(
    quality = "enhanced",
    diarization = sm_diarize_speaker()
  )
)
#> ✔ Submitting 'testrecording.mp3'
#> ℹ Job ID: "3kn7xr2abc"
#> ✔ Waiting for transcription [7.2s]
#> ✔ Saved to testrecording.txt