Leopard Speech-to-Text
.NET Quick Start
Platforms
- Linux (x86_64)
- macOS (x86_64, arm64)
- Windows (x86_64)
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano
- Raspberry Pi (3, 4)
Requirements
.NET Framework 4.6.1+ / .NET Standard 2.0+ / .NET Core 3.0+:
- Windows (x86_64)
.NET Standard 2.0+ / .NET Core 3.0+:
- Linux (x86_64)
- macOS (x86_64)
.NET Core 3.0+:
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano
- 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
Install .NET .
Install the Leopard NuGet package in Visual Studio or using the .NET CLI:
Usage
Create an instance of the engine:
Transcribe an audio file by providing an absolute path to the file:
Transcribe raw audio data (sample rate of 16 kHz, 16-bit linearly encoded and 1 channel):
Language Model
The Leopard .NET SDK comes preloaded with a default English language model (.pv
file).
Default models for other supported languages can be found in the Leopard GitHub repository .
Create custom language models using the Picovoice Console . Here you can train language models with custom vocabulary and boost words in the existing vocabulary.
To switch from the default English model, pass in a .pv
file to the .Create()
constructor:
Demo
For the Leopard .NET SDK, we offer demo applications that demonstrate how to use the Speech-to-Text engine on audio files.
Setup
- Clone the Leopard repository from GitHub:
- Build the demo:
Usage
Use the --help
flag to see the usage options for the demo:
Run the following command to transcribe an audio file:
For more information on our Leopard demos for .NET, head over to our GitHub repository .