Acoustic Model Machine

This package can help you put together a dataset for training a custom acoustic adaptation model for Microsoft's Custom Speech Service.

It does so by using a video / audio file with matching subtitles to extract short passages of speech. These passages are saved to disk in the correct audio format needed. It'll then generate a transcription text file in the exact format required by Custom Speech Service. See the official Custom Speech Service documentation for more details on acoustic adaptation model datasets.

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Installation

Firstly, install NodeJS on your operating system.
You'll also need to have ffmpeg installed. Windows can be tricky in particular; this guide is a good one.

Then, in your favourite terminal application, type the following:

npm install -g acoustic-model-machine

Usage

acoustic-model-machine --source=/path/to/audio.wav --subtitle=/path/to/subtitle.srt --output-dir=mydatasetdir

Options

• --source required - the path to the source file containing the speech you want to extract.
• --subtitle required - the path to the subtitle file that matches the source audio file. Requires .srt format.
• --output-dir optional - the path to where you'd like the dataset saved to. Default is the current working directory.
• --output-prefix optional - a custom prefix for the audio extraction files. Default is speech. See below section for output example.
• --verbose optional - see more verbose logging output when generating a dataset.

Output

The completed dataset output will have the following structure:

mydatasetdir/
├── audio
│   ├── speech000001.wav
│   ├── speech000002.wav
│   ├── speech000003.wav
│   ├── speech000004.wav
│   ├── speech000005.wav
│   ├── speech000006.wav
│   ├── speech000007.wav
│   ├── speech000008.wav
│   ├── speech000009.wav
│   └── speech000010.wav
└── transcription.txt

Importing the acoustic adaptation dataset into Custom Speech Service

1. Compress all audio files in the dataset into a flat zip file.
2. Follow the official documentation to import.

Roadmap

• Importing of subtitles directly embedded in the source. For now, this needs to be performed manually with ffmpeg before using this tool.
• Notice anything else missing? File an issue 😄

License

MIT.