Cheetah Speech-to-Text
.NET Quick Start

Platforms

• Linux (x86_64)
• macOS (x86_64, arm64)
• Windows (x86_64)
• Raspberry Pi (3, 4, 5)

Requirements

• Picovoice Account & AccessKey

.NET Framework 4.6.1+ / .NET Standard 2.0+ / .NET Core 3.1+:

• Windows (x86_64)

.NET Core 2.0+ / .NET Core 3.1+:

• Linux (x86_64)
• macOS (x86_64)

.NET Core 3.1+:

• Raspberry Pi (3, 4)

.NET 6.0+:

• macOS (arm64)

Picovoice Account & AccessKey

Signup or Login to Picovoice Console to get your AccessKey. Make sure to keep your AccessKey secret.

Quick Start

Setup

1. Install .NET.

2. Install the Cheetah Streaming Speech-to-Text NuGet package in Visual Studio or using the .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Picovoice.Cheetah

Usage

Create an instance of the engine:

using Pv;

const string accessKey = "${ACCESS_KEY}";

Cheetah cheetah = Cheetah.Create(accessKey);

Transcribe audio:

short[] GetNextAudioFrame()
{
    // .. get audioFrame
    return audioFrame;
}

string transcript = "";

while(true)
{
    CheetahTranscript transcriptObj = cheetah.Process(GetNextAudioFrame());
    transcript += transcriptObj.Transcript;

    if (transcriptObj.IsEndpoint) {
        CheetahTranscript finalTranscriptObj = cheetah.Flush();
        transcript += finalTranscriptObj.Transcript;
    }
}

Demo

For the Cheetah Streaming Speech-to-Text .NET SDK, we offer demo applications that demonstrate how to use the Speech-to-Text engine on real-time audio streams (i.e. microphone input).

Setup

1. Clone the Cheetah Streaming Speech-to-Text repository from GitHub:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Picovoice/cheetah.git

2. Build the demo:

cd cheetah/demo/dotnet/Cheetah
dotnet build -c MicDemo.Release

Usage

Use the --help flag to see the usage options for the demo:

dotnet run -c MicDemo.Release -- --help

Ensure you have a working microphone connected to your system and run the following command to perform live speech-to-text:

dotnet run -c MicDemo.Release -- --access_key ${ACCESS_KEY}

For more information on our Cheetah Streaming Speech-to-Text demos for .NET, head over to our GitHub repository.

Resources