microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
[audio-transcription] Support other languages than english
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Description
From my understanding, [audio-transcription] only supports English.
However, at Nudibranches Technologies we need support for the French language.
The current transcription is done using recognize_google from speech_recognition.
recognize_google is an alias for recognize_legacy which expects the caller to provide a language parameter.
Hence, I think we should add a language hint.
I will open a PR to propose an implementation.
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Start in packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py and inspect the recognize_google call and its language parameter in SpeechRecognition. Confirm how a language hint should be supplied for French, then verify that audio transcription accepts the intended language and preserves current English behavior.
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- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 3/5
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