speech-training-recorder
Simple GUI application to help record audio dictated from given textprompts, for use with training speech recognition or speech synthesis.
Given a text file containing prompts, this app will choose a random selectionand ordering of them, display them to be dictated by the user, and record thedictation audio and metadata to a .wav
file and recorder.tsv
filerespectively. You can select a previous recording to play it back, delete it,and/or re-record it.
Requirements:
- Python 3
- See
requirements.txt
for required packages - Cross platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS
Getting Started
git clone https://github.com/daanzu/speech-training-recorder.gitcd speech-training-recordermkdir ../audio_datapip install -r requirements.txtpython3 recorder.py -p prompts/timit.txt
usage: recorder.py [-h] [-p PROMPTS_FILENAME] [-d SAVE_DIR] [-c PROMPTS_COUNT] [-l PROMPT_LEN_SOFT_MAX] [-o]Given a text file containing prompts, this app will choose a random selectionand ordering of them, display them to be dictated by the user, and record thedictation audio and metadata to a `.wav` file and `recorder.tsv` filerespectively.optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -p PROMPTS_FILENAME, --prompts_filename PROMPTS_FILENAME file containing prompts to choose from -d SAVE_DIR, --save_dir SAVE_DIR where to save .wav & recorder.tsv files (default: ../audio_data) -c PROMPTS_COUNT, --prompts_count PROMPTS_COUNT number of prompts to select and display (default: 100) -l PROMPT_LEN_SOFT_MAX, --prompt_len_soft_max PROMPT_LEN_SOFT_MAX -o, --ordered present prompts in order, as opposed to random (default: False)
Customization
See prompts/
directory for acceptable formats for prompt files: the simplest is rainbow_passage.txt
.
Related Repositories
- daanzu/kaldi_ag_training: Docker image and scripts for training finetuned or completely personal Kaldi speech models. Particularly for use with kaldi-active-grammar.