I just recently started using R, and the package googleLanguageR - it's great!
I have over 400 .flac files (ca. 20 seconds each) that I would like to convert into text, using gl_speech.
I wrote the following loop:
for (i in files) {
possibleError <- tryCatch({
participantid = str_sub(i, 1, 3)
patha = paste(path_in, i, sep='')
result <- gl_speech(patha,
sampleRateHertz = 44100L,
customConfig = my_config)
transcript2 <- subset(result$transcript, select=-c(languageCode, channelTag))
transcriptid <- cbind(participantid, transcript2)
write_delim(as.data.frame(transcriptid),file.path(path_in,paste0(participantid,'_text.csv')))
},
error = function(e) e)
if(inherits(possibleError, "error")) next
}
For completeness, my_config is:
my_config <- list(audioChannelCount = 2,
encoding = "FLAC",
maxAlternatives = 30,
languageCode = "en-US",
model = "video"
)
I do this for 2, 5 or 10 files at a time. Several of them return errors. The error message is:
ℹ 2020-10-08 20:07:56 > Request Status Code: 408
Error : lexical error: invalid char in json text.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=en>
(right here) ------^
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
<title>Error 408 (Request Timeout)!!1</title>
<style>
*{margin:0;padding:0}html,code{font:15px/22px arial,sans-serif}html{background:#fff;color:#222;padding:15px}body{margin:7% auto 0;max-width:390px;min-height:180px;padding:30px 0 15px}* > body{background:url(//www.google.com/images/errors/robot.png) 100% 5px no-repeat;padding-right:205px}p{margin:11px 0 22px;overflow:hidden}ins{color:#777;text-decoration:none}a img{border:0}@media screen and (max-width:772px){body{background:none;margin-top:0;max-width:none;padding-right:0}}#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;margin-left:-5px}@media only screen and (min-resolution:192dpi){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat 0% 0%/100% 100%;-moz-border-image:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) 0}}@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:2){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:100% 100%}}#logo{display:inline-block;height:54px;width:150px}
</style>
<a href=//www.google.com/><span id=logo aria-label=Google></span></a>
<p><b>408.</b> <ins>That’s an error.</ins>
<p>Your client has taken too long to issue its request. <ins>That’s all we know.</ins>
However, when I later run the files that returned errors individually, gl_speech does not return this error.
Is there a different way to loop over several files that will avoid as many errors?