Transcribe long audio files into text

func sendGCS(w io.Writer, client *speech.Client, gcsURI string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Send the contents of the audio file with the encoding and
	// and sample rate information to be transcripted.
	req := &speechpb.LongRunningRecognizeRequest{
		Config: &speechpb.RecognitionConfig{
			Encoding:        speechpb.RecognitionConfig_LINEAR16,
			SampleRateHertz: 16000,
			LanguageCode:    "en-US",
		},
		Audio: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio{
			AudioSource: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio_Uri{Uri: gcsURI},
		},
	}

	op, err := client.LongRunningRecognize(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	resp, err := op.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Print the results.
	for _, result := range resp.Results {
		for _, alt := range result.Alternatives {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "\"%v\" (confidence=%3f)\n", alt.Transcript, alt.Confidence)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

/**
 * Performs non-blocking speech recognition on remote FLAC file and prints the transcription.
 *
 * @param gcsUri the path to the remote LINEAR16 audio file to transcribe.
 */
public static void asyncRecognizeGcs(String gcsUri) throws Exception {
  // Configure polling algorithm
  SpeechSettings.Builder speechSettings = SpeechSettings.newBuilder();
  TimedRetryAlgorithm timedRetryAlgorithm =
      OperationTimedPollAlgorithm.create(
          RetrySettings.newBuilder()
              .setInitialRetryDelay(Duration.ofMillis(500L))
              .setRetryDelayMultiplier(1.5)
              .setMaxRetryDelay(Duration.ofMillis(5000L))
              .setInitialRpcTimeout(Duration.ZERO) // ignored
              .setRpcTimeoutMultiplier(1.0) // ignored
              .setMaxRpcTimeout(Duration.ZERO) // ignored
              .setTotalTimeout(Duration.ofHours(24L)) // set polling timeout to 24 hours
              .build());
  speechSettings.longRunningRecognizeOperationSettings().setPollingAlgorithm(timedRetryAlgorithm);

  // Instantiates a client with GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
  try (SpeechClient speech = SpeechClient.create(speechSettings.build())) {

    // Configure remote file request for FLAC
    RecognitionConfig config =
        RecognitionConfig.newBuilder()
            .setEncoding(AudioEncoding.FLAC)
            .setLanguageCode("en-US")
            .setSampleRateHertz(16000)
            .build();
    RecognitionAudio audio = RecognitionAudio.newBuilder().setUri(gcsUri).build();

    // Use non-blocking call for getting file transcription
    OperationFuture<LongRunningRecognizeResponse, LongRunningRecognizeMetadata> response =
        speech.longRunningRecognizeAsync(config, audio);
    while (!response.isDone()) {
      System.out.println("Waiting for response...");
      Thread.sleep(10000);
    }

    List<SpeechRecognitionResult> results = response.get().getResultsList();

    for (SpeechRecognitionResult result : results) {
      // There can be several alternative transcripts for a given chunk of speech. Just use the
      // first (most likely) one here.
      SpeechRecognitionAlternative alternative = result.getAlternativesList().get(0);
      System.out.printf("Transcription: %s\n", alternative.getTranscript());
    }
  }
}

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const speech = require('@google-cloud/speech');

// Creates a client
const client = new speech.SpeechClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const gcsUri = 'gs://my-bucket/audio.raw';
// const encoding = 'Encoding of the audio file, e.g. LINEAR16';
// const sampleRateHertz = 16000;
// const languageCode = 'BCP-47 language code, e.g. en-US';

const config = {
  encoding: encoding,
  sampleRateHertz: sampleRateHertz,
  languageCode: languageCode,
};

const audio = {
  uri: gcsUri,
};

const request = {
  config: config,
  audio: audio,
};

// Detects speech in the audio file. This creates a recognition job that you
// can wait for now, or get its result later.
const [operation] = await client.longRunningRecognize(request);
// Get a Promise representation of the final result of the job
const [response] = await operation.promise();
const transcription = response.results
  .map(result => result.alternatives[0].transcript)
  .join('\n');
console.log(`Transcription: ${transcription}`);

from google.cloud import speech


def transcribe_gcs(gcs_uri: str) -> str:
    """Asynchronously transcribes the audio file from Cloud Storage
    Args:
        gcs_uri: The Google Cloud Storage path to an audio file.
            E.g., "gs://storage-bucket/file.flac".
    Returns:
        The generated transcript from the audio file provided.
    """
    client = speech.SpeechClient()

    audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(uri=gcs_uri)
    config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
        encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.FLAC,
        sample_rate_hertz=44100,
        language_code="en-US",
    )

    operation = client.long_running_recognize(config=config, audio=audio)

    print("Waiting for operation to complete...")
    response = operation.result(timeout=90)

    transcript_builder = []
    # Each result is for a consecutive portion of the audio. Iterate through
    # them to get the transcripts for the entire audio file.
    for result in response.results:
        # The first alternative is the most likely one for this portion.
        transcript_builder.append(f"\nTranscript: {result.alternatives[0].transcript}")
        transcript_builder.append(f"\nConfidence: {result.alternatives[0].confidence}")

    transcript = "".join(transcript_builder)
    print(transcript)

    return transcript