Speech pipeline

Linux python project to:

• recognize human speech (German or English), from either a microphone or a video
• then translate it to English or German
• then convert it into speech (text-to-speech).

Installation

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS with Python 3.10.4 and pip 22.2.2

• Clone and change to the repository and bash install.sh
• Confirm the installation of the programs it needs
• Activate the virtual environment source ~/venv_speech_pipeline/bin/activate

Models

All machine learning models will automatically be downloaded the first time they are needed:

• Vosk models in ~/.cache/vosk/ (more than 1 GB each)
• Marian models in working/git directory
• TTS models in ~/.local/share/tts/

Usage

Run python3 process_speech {mic,video} --help for more information

From a video file

Run python3 process_speech.py video [file]

From a microphone

Run python3 process_speech.py mic