# Transcriber

## Component/part description

This is the module responsible for generating the transcription, generally using a third party service or API such as IBM Watson one.

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It is composed of 2 main components

* [**Audio converter**](https://autoedit.gitbook.io/documentation/master-1.0.13-1/transcriptions/transcriptions-intro/transcriber/audio-to-video) Convert audio or video to audio specs for stt API

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* [**STT sdk**](https://autoedit.gitbook.io/documentation/master-1.0.13-1/transcriptions/transcriptions-intro/transcriber/stt-api) audio to STT API/Service, to receive time-coded transcription.

With Extra:

* **Speaker diarization** can either happen at the STT API level or as a separate module to be interpolated with the transcription.

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And optional:

* **Srt parsing**. Allow srt as input. In case transcription comes from elsewhere. Can use module [srtParserComposer to refactor](https://github.com/pietrop/srtParserComposer)

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* **Plain text as input**, if you already have the transcription, use something like Gentle to re-align and generate transcription json.

## Related projects

It was Initially prototyped as a standalone app to test quality of speech to text. see [Transcriber](https://github.com/pietrop/Transcriber).

## Implementations Options considered

NA

## Current implementation

[See component](https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/tree/master/lib/interactive_transcription_generator/transcriber)

## What needs refactoring

Perhaps look into compositor pattern to bring together the components of this module.


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