🗣 Speech <2> Data Streamlit based Web App ✨

A minimalistic automatic speech recognition streamlit based webapp powered by wav2vec2-base-960h Facebook model provided by HuggingFace transformers and the NL API provided by expert.ai This is an extension of the work done by therealexpertai.

Installation:

• Simply run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to install the necessary dependencies.
• Get your API usage Credentials for NL API from expert.ai. You can register here for free tier access.

Usage:

1. Enter your credentials in the creds.py file. You can also save them as your system environment variables as per your convenience.
2. Simply run the command:

streamlit run app.py

3. Navigate to http://localhost:8501 in your web-browser. This will launch the web app :

4. By default, streamlit allows us to upload files of max. 200MB. If you want to have more size for uploading audio files, execute the command :

streamlit run app.py --server.maxUploadSize=1028

Running the Dockerized App

1. Ensure you have Docker Installed and Setup in your OS (Windows/Mac/Linux). For detailed Instructions, please refer this.
2. Navigate to the folder where you have cloned this repository ( where the Dockerfile is present ).
3. Build the Docker Image (don't forget the dot!! 😄 ):

docker build -f Dockerfile -t app:latest .

4. Run the docker:

docker run -p 8501:8501 app:latest

This will launch the dockerized app. Navigate to http://localhost:8501/ in your browser to have a look at your application. You can check the status of your all available running dockers by:

docker ps

Heroku Deployment (Optional)

1. Navigate to the Heroku Platform and login using your E-mail. In case you don't have an account, you can sign-up using your E-mail.
2. After account creation and successful login, click on Create New App. The platform shall now ask you to choose a suitable name for the webapp and the corresponding region (Europe/United States)
3. Add a payment method and click on Create App. (Heroku's free tier plan for webapps deployment has ended. For more details, you can refer this.)
4. Open a new tab and login into your Github Account and create a git repository comprising of this entire directory's files and sub-directories.
5. Switch back to the heroku app configuration and under the Deploy menu, select Github under the Deployment Method category.
6. You need to successfully authenticate and authorize access to your Github account by Heroku. After successful authorization, search for your git repository name and select Connect.
7. Go to Manual Deploys section and select the suitable branch name from the git repository which you wish to deploy.
8. Click Deploy Branch. This will launch the webapp deployment and you can view the build logs. This may take several minutes and upon completion, you should see a message stating:

Launching...
Released v1
https://<heroku app name>.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku

9. You can now navigate to the URL https://.herokuapp.com/ in order to view your deployed webapp. For any troubleshooting, you can refer their documentation.