# Jasper ASR

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> Generates text from speech audio
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# Table of Contents

* [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
* [Features](#features)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Usage](#usage)

# Prerequisites
```bash
# apt install libsndfile-dev ffmpeg
```

# Features

* ASR using Jasper (from [NemoToolkit](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo) )


# Installation
To install the packages and its dependencies run.
```bash
python setup.py install
```
or with pip
```bash
pip install .[server]
```

The installation should work on Python 3.6 or newer. Untested on Python 2.7

# Usage
```python
from jasper.asr import JasperASR
asr_model = JasperASR("/path/to/model_config_yaml","/path/to/encoder_checkpoint","/path/to/decoder_checkpoint") # Loads the models
TEXT = asr_model.transcribe(wav_data) # Returns the text spoken in the wav
```