Transcribe a local multi-channel file (beta)

// transcribeMultichannel generates a transcript from a multichannel speech file and tags the speech from each channel.
func transcribeMultichannel(w io.Writer) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := speech.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("../testdata/commercial_stereo.wav")
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("ReadFile: %w", err)
	}

	resp, err := client.Recognize(ctx, &speechpb.RecognizeRequest{
		Config: &speechpb.RecognitionConfig{
			Encoding:                            speechpb.RecognitionConfig_LINEAR16,
			SampleRateHertz:                     44100,
			LanguageCode:                        "en-US",
			AudioChannelCount:                   2,
			EnableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel: true,
		},
		Audio: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio{
			AudioSource: &speechpb.RecognitionAudio_Content{Content: data},
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Recognize: %w", err)
	}

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

/**
 * Transcribe a local audio file with multi-channel recognition
 *
 * @param fileName the path to local audio file
 */
public static void transcribeMultiChannel(String fileName) throws Exception {
  Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
  byte[] content = Files.readAllBytes(path);

  try (SpeechClient speechClient = SpeechClient.create()) {
    // Get the contents of the local audio file
    RecognitionAudio recognitionAudio =
        RecognitionAudio.newBuilder().setContent(ByteString.copyFrom(content)).build();

    // Configure request to enable multiple channels
    RecognitionConfig config =
        RecognitionConfig.newBuilder()
            .setEncoding(AudioEncoding.LINEAR16)
            .setLanguageCode("en-US")
            .setSampleRateHertz(44100)
            .setAudioChannelCount(2)
            .setEnableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel(true)
            .build();

    // Perform the transcription request
    RecognizeResponse recognizeResponse = speechClient.recognize(config, recognitionAudio);

    // Print out the results
    for (SpeechRecognitionResult result : recognizeResponse.getResultsList()) {
      // There can be several alternative transcripts for a given chunk of speech. Just use the
      // first (most likely) one here.
      SpeechRecognitionAlternative alternative = result.getAlternatives(0);
      System.out.format("Transcript : %s\n", alternative.getTranscript());
      System.out.printf("Channel Tag : %s\n\n", result.getChannelTag());
    }
  }
}

const fs = require('fs');

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const speech = require('@google-cloud/speech').v1p1beta1;

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const fileName = 'Local path to audio file, e.g. /path/to/audio.raw';

const config = {
  encoding: 'LINEAR16',
  languageCode: 'en-US',
  audioChannelCount: 2,
  enableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel: true,
};

const audio = {
  content: fs.readFileSync(fileName).toString('base64'),
};

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

const [response] = await client.recognize(request);
const transcription = response.results
  .map(
    result =>
      ` Channel Tag: ${result.channelTag} ${result.alternatives[0].transcript}`
  )
  .join('\n');
console.log(`Transcription: \n${transcription}`);

from google.cloud import speech_v1p1beta1 as speech

client = speech.SpeechClient()

speech_file = "resources/Google_Gnome.wav"

with open(speech_file, "rb") as audio_file:
    content = audio_file.read()

audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(content=content)

config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
    encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
    sample_rate_hertz=16000,
    language_code="en-US",
    audio_channel_count=1,
    enable_separate_recognition_per_channel=True,
)

response = client.recognize(config=config, audio=audio)

for i, result in enumerate(response.results):
    alternative = result.alternatives[0]
    print("-" * 20)
    print(f"First alternative of result {i}")
    print(f"Transcript: {alternative.transcript}")
    print(f"Channel Tag: {result.channel_tag}")

return response.results