Re: Is there a debian tool for this goal?

[jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com>]

On 24/9/23 06:46, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Any tool in Debian, or another Linux application that will take audio 
> and translate that audio  into English?
> Have a friend who wishes to translate Armenian news broadcasts into 
> English, apparently not finding translations on the sites themselves.
>  thanks,
> Karen

While not a current linux tool as such, openAI offers a speech to text 
API that recognises Armenian and translates it to English

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text/quickstart

You can run the API  as a a simple Python program on a Linux machine.

You do need to have an API account with openAI and it costs fractions of 
a cent for each translation.

This is one python program written by GPT4 just now. I've used something 
similar before, though there may be some limitation on audio file length 
that requires chopping the input up to shorter lengths?

import openai
import sys

# Set your API key
openai.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

def translate_audio_to_english(filename):
    with open(filename, "rb") as audio_file:
        transcript = openai.Audio.translate("whisper-1", audio_file)
    return transcript

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Usage: python script_name.py <path_to_audio_file>")
        sys.exit(1)

    audio_filename = sys.argv[1]
    translated_text = translate_audio_to_english(audio_filename)
    print(translated_text)

Then run it as

python3 translate_audio.py /path/to/file/armenian.mp3