Batch transcription using speech to text service is taking more than 12 hours to transcribe some audio files.

Question

Hi,

We use azure speech to text to transcribe the mp3 files. The audio files are approximately 1MB in size and around 10 mins long.
The batch transcription is taking more than 12 hrs to transcribe these files.

Answer 1

@Smit Burde Thanks for the question. This https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/quickstarts/from-blob?pivots=programming-language-csharp explains how to transcribe audio files that are in storage (offline aka batch transcription). Samples are available in our github sample repository (C# and python https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/samples/batch). You don’t need to be constantly connected to the service, you submit jobs and collect the results at a later point in time, the audio files can have a length of several hours. The functionality is REST based.

This repo I added some sample code to demo the Speech to Text SDK:
https://github.com/caiomsouza/Microsoft-Cognitive-Services/tree/master/speech-to-text