Transcribe Audio to Text

Be able to convert audio files to text.

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Inspiration

My inspiration for this project was to work with a cloud service and implement it in a website. I was really excited about using Python, HTML, Javascript, and CSS to use cloud service in part of my project.

What it does

My project, Transcribe Audio to Text, allows a user to take an audio file, and receive a transcript of it through AWS's transcribe service.

How we built it

Using Python and flask, I built a REST API in order to communicate between my website and AWS. I developed our website using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and it allows users to upload an audio file to be transcribed. My Python code takes the uploaded audio file and creates a transcribe job in AWS, and later returns the transcript to the website.

Challenges we ran into

All my code was written during the hackathon. While working on my code, I was unable to upload the audio file to s3, and my file kept showing up as 0 bytes. However, I fixed this by realizing that I needed to use the .fileobj method. Furthermore, while working on my website, I could not display the message on the website. I fixed this by using a Javascript function to display the transcript as innerHTML.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am really proud of what we learned this hackathon. None of us have ever worked with cloud services before, and using one for the first time was something I am extremely proud of.

What we learned

In this hackathon, I learned a lot of different things, both from the talks and workshops I attended, and from coding too. In coding, I learned how to work with cloud services, and building REST APIs using flask. I also improved my HTML, Javascript, and CSS skills by building a website.

What's next for Transcribe Audio to Text

Next, I am hoping to host my HTML website on a public host, to make it available to more users. I hope that by doing so, my application can help people and users of the internet everywhere. I am also looking to translate other languages in my transcript file.

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