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How to use Webhook for Microsoft cognitive Speech to Text V3

I'm trying to understand how to use a webhook in microsoft speech to text V3. According to the docs i was able to create a webhook and ping it. Now whenever a transcription is complete the webhook is called, but the body object in request is empty always and is pretty much of no use. Can anyone tell me what am i doing wrong ?

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The body of the request, that you receive, should contain a content similar to this one

You can do an HTTP GET on the self property of the body to get details on the entity. These are deliberately not included, due to possible trust concerns between the web hook receiver and the subscription owner.

Also, there should be a header in the request named X-MicrosoftSpeechServices-Event . It should contain the state of the transcription as one of the following, depending on what you subscribed for

• TranscriptionCreation
• TranscriptionProcessing
• TranscriptionCompletion
• TranscriptionDeletion

I just created a web hook with all the above transcription event types and I received the expected requests with the expected payload in the body. If you do not see the correct payload in the body, please let me know, which endpoint (region) you are using, so I can check that one specifically. There might be a bug in that specific datacenter.

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• Hey Dirk, thank you for taking a look :), my location is "eastus" and i'm still not getting anything within the body but it does seem to have X-MicrosoftSpeechServices-Event header. If you need any more details about the request i'll share it with you . –  Kartik Gupta Commented Jul 6, 2021 at 15:23
• I tried creating a transcription in that region. The web hook receiver reported the body to be { "self": " eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/speechtotext/v3.0/… ", "invocationId": "7fcc4c1e-19f3-47fe-a74a-df5db720bc63" } Please make sure, you de-serialize the body of the POST request in the web hook receiver correctly. –  D. Siemer Commented Jul 7, 2021 at 13:37
• 1 The possible events you can subscribe to are: datasetCreation datasetProcessing datasetCompletion datasetDeletion modelCreation modelProcessing modelCompletion modelDeletion evaluationCreation evaluationProcessing evaluationCompletion evaluationDeletion transcriptionCreation transcriptionProcessing transcriptionCompletion transcriptionDeletion endpointCreation endpointProcessing endpointCompletion endpointDeletion –  D. Siemer Commented Jan 11, 2022 at 17:42
• 2 When looking for failures, you should subscribe to the .*Completion events, do a GET on the self link and look for the Status property of the response. There is only one event for entities reaching a terminal state. We don't offer different events for success and error. –  D. Siemer Commented Jan 11, 2022 at 17:46
• 1 The documentation is a bit frustrating to find, due to a visualization issue in the APIM. The documentation can be found here: westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/… From there you can download the API definition. In the Swagger you can look for the WebHook definition of the POST body and in there you will find the "events" as property of type object with the allowed property names and types (boolean) for that object. –  D. Siemer Commented Jan 11, 2022 at 18:07

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Command line tools utilising Azure Speech to Text Cognitive Services using the mlhub.ai framework

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Azure speech to text.

This MLHub package provides a quick introduction to the pre-built Speech to Text model provided through Azure's Cognitive Services. This service takes an audio signal and transcribes it to return the text.

In addition to the demonstration this package provides a collection of commands that turn the service into a useful command line tool for transcribing from the microphone or from an audio file.

A free Azure subscription allowing up to 5,000 transactions per month is available from https://azure.microsoft.com/free/ . After subscribing visit https://ms.portal.azure.com and Create a resource under AI and Machine Learning called Speech Services. Once created you can access the web API subscription key and endpoint from the portal. This will be prompted for in the demo.

This package is part of the Azure on MLHub repository. Please note that these Azure models, unlike the MLHub models in general, use closed source services which have no guarantee of ongoing availability and do not come with the freedom to modify and share.

Visit the github repository for more details: https://github.com/Azure/azspeech2txt

The Python code is based on the Azure Speech Services Quick Start for Python .

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Command Line Tools

In addition to the demo presented below, the azspeech2txt package provides a number of useful command line tools.

The listen command will listen for an utterance from the computer microphone for up to 15 seconds and then transcribe it to standard output.

The transcribe command takes an audio file and transcribes it to standard output. For large audio files this can take some time.

The audio file comes from Github: https://github.com/realpython/python-speech-recognition/raw/master/audio_files/harvard.wav

Demonstration

As you can see I read the first paragraph from the screen and the Azure Speech to Text service was quite accurate in its transcription. If the accuracy for the particular accent is good then it is quite suitable, for example, to be used as a dictation tool.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s war in Gaza and condemned American protesters in a scathing speech to Congress Wednesday that triggered boycotts by many top Democratic lawmakers and drew thousands to the Capitol to condemn the war and the humanitarian crisis it has created.

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Netanyahu vowed to press on with the war until “total victory,” disappointing hopes by some that the Israeli leader’s visit to the United States could bring some breakthrough in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage-release.

Speaking to applause from U.S. lawmakers, and stony silence from others, Netanyahu sought to bolster U.S. support for his country’s fight against Hamas and other Iran-backed armed groups.

“America and Israel must stand together. When we stand together something really simple happens: We win, they lose,” said Netanyahu, who wore a yellow pin expressing solidarity with the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

But the Israeli leader soon pivoted to a darker tone as he derided those protesting the war on college campuses and elsewhere in the U.S., gesturing to demonstrations happening on the streets outside the Capitol. He called protesters “useful idiots” for Israel’s adversaries.

He drew shouts of applause from many in Congress, but also silence from leading Democrats who declined to stand and cheer.

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Freed former hostages of Hamas and families of hostages listened in the House chamber. Lawmakers of both parties rose to applaud the Israeli leader in milder moments in the speech. Security escorted out protesters in the gallery who rose to display T-shirts with slogans demanding that leaders close a deal ending the conflict and freeing hostages.

Netanyahu accused the numerous protesters of the war in the United States of standing with the militants who he said killed babies in Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7. “These protesters that stand with them, they should be ashamed of themselves,” he said.

Netanyahu — who is frequently accused of wading into U.S. politics in favor of conservative and Republican causes — started his remarks with praise of President Joe Biden. But he turned to lavishing praise on former president and current presidential contender Donald Trump “for all he’s done for Israel.”

With criticism against him rising in Israel, too, Netanyahu aimed to portray himself as a statesman respected by Israel’s most important ally. That task is complicated by Americans’ increasingly divided views on Israel and the war, which has emerged as a key issue in the U.S. presidential election.

Tall steel barriers ringed the Capitol Wednesday, and police deployed pepper spray as thousands of protesters rallied near the Capitol, denouncing Netanyahu as a “war criminal” and calling for a cease-fire.

Netanyahu received a warm welcome from House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican lawmakers who arranged his speech in the House chamber. Netanyahu received a bipartisan standing ovation before speaking.

READ MORE: Demonstrators stage protest against Netanyahu visit on Capitol Hill

The appearance made Netanyahu the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of Congress four times, surpassing Winston Churchill.

More than 50 Democrats and political independent Bernie Sanders boycotted Netanyahu’s speech. The most notable absence was right behind him: Vice President Kamala Harris, who serves as president of the Senate, said a long-scheduled trip kept her from attending.

The next Democrat in line, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, declined to attend, so Sen. Ben Cardin, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as “senator pro tempore” in place of her.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who has family in the West Bank, sat in the House chamber with a keffiyeh, which she often wears, wrapped over her shoulders. Tlaib was censured last year for her strident criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war.

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Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden and Harris on Thursday, and with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday.

Many in the swelling crowds of demonstrators protested the killings of more than 39,000 Palestinians in the war. Others condemned Netanyahu’s inability to free Israeli and American hostages taken by Hamas and other militants during the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war.

Support for Israel has long carried political weight in U.S. politics. But the usual warm welcome for Netanyahu’s visits has been diminished this time around by political turmoil, including the assassination attempt against Trump and Biden’s decision not to seek another term.

READ MORE: What to know about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S.

Many Democrats who support Israel but have been critical of Netanyahu saw the address as a Republican effort to cast itself as the party most loyal.

Many Democrats attended the address despite their criticism of Netanyahu, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who called for new elections in Israel in a March floor speech. Schumer, of New York, said then that Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

About 60 lawmakers met Wednesday with relatives of those taken hostage by Hamas, and they expressed anger toward Netanyahu. “Because by coming here, he risks making himself the issue, turning the humanitarian issue of the hostages into a political one,” Maya Roman, who had several family members taken hostage, told the lawmakers.

The United States is Israel’s most important ally, arms supplier and source of military aid. Netanyahu’s visit is his first abroad since the war started, and comes under the shadow of arrest warrants sought against him by the International Criminal Court over alleged Israel war crimes against Palestinians. The United States does not recognize the ICC.

The Biden administration says it wants to see Netanyahu focus his visit on helping it complete a deal for a cease-fire and hostage-release. Growing numbers of Israelis accuse Netanyahu of prolonging the war in order to avoid a likely fall from power whenever the conflict ends.

Netanyahu has said his aims for the U.S. visit are to press for freeing hostages held by Hamas and other militants in Gaza, to build support for continuing Israel’s battle against the group, and to argue for continuing to confront Hezbollah in Lebanon and other Iranian-allied groups in the region.

Some Democrats are wary about Netanyahu since he used a 2015 joint address to Congress to denounce then-President Barack Obama’s pending nuclear deal with Iran.

Netanyahu used an appearance early Wednesday to focus on Iran, its nuclear program and its network of armed allies. Iran is “behind the entire axis of terror” that threatens the U.S. and Israel, he said, speaking at a memorial for former Sen. Joe Lieberman.

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Together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed.

The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.

I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.

So tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Speech to text containers with Docker

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The Speech to text container transcribes real-time speech or batch audio recordings with intermediate results. In this article, you learn how to download, install, and run a speech to text container.

For more information about prerequisites, validating that a container is running, running multiple containers on the same host, and running disconnected containers, see Install and run Speech containers with Docker .

Container images

The Speech to text container image for all supported versions and locales can be found on the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR) syndicate. It resides within the azure-cognitive-services/speechservices/ repository and is named speech-to-text .

The fully qualified container image name is, mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cognitive-services/speechservices/speech-to-text . Either append a specific version or append :latest to get the most recent version.

All tags, except for latest , are in the following format and are case sensitive:

The tags are also available in JSON format for your convenience. The body includes the container path and list of tags. The tags aren't sorted by version, but "latest" is always included at the end of the list as shown in this snippet:

Get the container image with docker pull

You need the prerequisites including required hardware. Also see the recommended allocation of resources for each Speech container.

Use the docker pull command to download a container image from Microsoft Container Registry:

The latest tag pulls the latest image for the en-US locale. For additional versions and locales, see speech to text container images .

Run the container with docker run

Use the docker run command to run the container.

• Speech to text
• Disconnected speech to text

The following table represents the various docker run parameters and their corresponding descriptions:

When you run the speech to text container, configure the port, memory, and CPU according to the speech to text container requirements and recommendations .

Here's an example docker run command with placeholder values. You must specify the ENDPOINT_URI and API_KEY values:

This command:

• Runs a speech-to-text container from the container image.
• Allocates 4 CPU cores and 8 GB of memory.
• Exposes TCP port 5000 and allocates a pseudo-TTY for the container.
• Automatically removes the container after it exits. The container image is still available on the host computer.

To run disconnected containers (not connected to the internet), you must submit this request form and wait for approval. For more information about applying and purchasing a commitment plan to use containers in disconnected environments, see Use containers in disconnected environments in the Azure AI services documentation.

If you're approved to run the container disconnected from the internet, the following example shows the formatting of the docker run command to use, with placeholder values. Replace these placeholder values with your own values.

The DownloadLicense=True parameter in your docker run command downloads a license file to enable your Docker container to run when it isn't connected to the internet. It also contains an expiration date, after which the license file is invalid to run the container. You can only use a license file with the appropriate container that you're approved for. For example, you can't use a license file for a speech-to-text container with a neural-text-to-speech container.

Once the license file is downloaded, you can run the container in a disconnected environment. The following example shows the formatting of the docker run command you use, with placeholder values. Replace these placeholder values with your own values.

Wherever the container is run, the license file must be mounted to the container and the location of the license folder on the container's local filesystem must be specified with Mounts:License= . An output mount must also be specified so that billing usage records can be written.

Speech containers provide a default directory for writing the license file and billing log at runtime. The default directories are /license and /output respectively.

When you're mounting these directories to the container with the docker run -v command, make sure the local machine directory is set ownership to user:group nonroot:nonroot before running the container.

Here's a sample command to set file/directory ownership.

For more information about docker run with Speech containers, see Install and run Speech containers with Docker .

Use the container

Speech containers provide websocket-based query endpoint APIs that are accessed through the Speech SDK and Speech CLI. By default, the Speech SDK and Speech CLI use the public Speech service. To use the container, you need to change the initialization method.

When you use the Speech service with containers, be sure to use host authentication . If you configure the key and region, requests will go to the public Speech service. Results from the Speech service might not be what you expect. Requests from disconnected containers will fail.

Instead of using this Azure-cloud initialization config:

Use this config with the container host :

Use this config with the container host:

Use this config with the container endpoint :

When you use the Speech CLI in a container, include the --host ws://localhost:5000/ option. You must also specify --key none to ensure that the CLI doesn't try to use a Speech key for authentication. For information about how to configure the Speech CLI, see Get started with the Azure AI Speech CLI .

Try the speech to text quickstart using host authentication instead of key and region.

• See the Speech containers overview
• Review configure containers for configuration settings
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Read Donald Trump's full RNC speech transcript

In a more than hour-long speech, Donald Trump officially accepted his presidential nomination on Thursday, the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He was introduced by Dana White , UFC CEO, and he covered several big topics including a play-by-play of his assassination attempt Saturday . He honored Corey Comperatore , the attendee who died in the rally shooting, touted his economic record, and criticized the Biden administration's immigration policy.

"I'm not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here," Trump said.

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