Google Cloud Speech to Text Voicemail Transcription

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junction1153

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Edit: Updated 04/02/2021

***As Mark stated in training videos, you should be using email queue for a production server. I've personally experienced issues with freeswitch locking up and completely crashing under heavy load. Root of the issue was transcriptions***

Make sure you have the latest fusionpbx github repo, at least for record_message.lua as of 10/2020

Step 1. Make sure you have a google cloud API generated with the proper permissions to use the speech to text engine

Step 2. Advanced --> Default Settings --> Voicemail. If a subcategory already exists please do not duplicate it. Change the values per bellow’s directions and enable the value.

dont forget to “reload” on the top right of the page when done


Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_provider
Type: text
Value: google
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: json_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_language
Type: text
Value: en-US (or can be any one of these: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages)
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_alternate_language
Type: text
Value: es-US (or can be any one of these: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages)
Enabled: true
***a value must be present for this. I have not yet had time to set the script where it skips it if there is no value. But basically with this value set, if google detects another language, it will transcribe in the alternative language provided instead of trying to transcribe in english)***

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: google_url
Type: text
Value: https://speech.googleapis.com/v1p1beta1/speech
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: google_key
Type: text
Value: YOUR API KEY HERE
Enabled: true

This will only transcribe up to one minute of speech, per google's limitation. There is a way to transcribe longer, but well beyond my expertise and probably unnecessary for the majority of users.

Please let me know if you have any questions/comments/etc
 
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@markjcrane please feel free to use this for fusionpbx's code. I am a bit tied up the next few days but I will work on organizing the code and contributing to git early next month. Hopefully in time to use it in the email queue as well.

Edit: I just figured it all out and submitted the git contribution

Assuming you approve it, these are the directions that go along with it:

Advanced --> Default Settings --> Voicemail.
Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_provider
Type: text
Value: google
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: json_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: transcribe_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: json_enabled
Type: boolean
Value: true
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: google_key
Type: text
Value: INSERT YOUR API KEY HERE
Enabled: true

Add: Category: voicemail
Subcategory: google_url
Type: text
Value: https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech
Enabled: true
 
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powersofpain

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Wanna thank the work you guys have done so far on the Google Speech to Text transcription.

I just like to add my findings.
It will seems that 'alternativeLanguageCodes' option is not (no longer?) supported.
I keep getting 400 errors in the google console then i took a look at the record_message.lua file and did some console debugging.
It turns out that 'alternativeLanguageCodes': 'es' is the the culprit.

Removing this solve the problem.
 

volkswagner

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Thanks for providing this info. I'm very surprised that this isn't a more popular topic. I was able to get
Google Speech API to transcribe voicemails on FreePBX using a tutorial. I can't find a similar
or any comprehensive how-to for using google's speech engine to transcribe voicemails with FusionPBX.

I have file > fusionpbx/app/scripts/resources/scripts/app/voicemail/resources/functions/record_message.lua
dated May 30 2021. I just don't know what other dependancies/steps I need to take.

Can @powersofpain or @junction1153 offer more details on how to get this working?
 
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junction1153

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At this point it should work right out of the box. Please follow step 2 in the original post to get it set up. It’s been updated with the current code. When you finally do get it working, i recommend you migrate to message queue if you have an active system. You WILL see Freeswitch lock up and crash otherwise. This is not specific to google, this is with any transcribe provider you end up with.
 

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Thanks @junction1153

I added the seven entries/sub_categories to voicemail.
I see in the body of the email "Transcription".

Oddly during testing, I saw "Transcription ${message_text}
But now I'm not seeing that. I think this is because I blindly
added the seven entries, not expecting some already existed.

I deleted two duplicates "transcribe_enabled" and "json_enabled".

Hmnn,
I see those duplicates are in the second post above. I must need
both? I don't understand how these seem redundant/identical but
how/why the system uses them uniquely.

When I add the duplicate entries back, email doesn't send at all.

This is what I have for Default voicemail Settings:
display_domain_namebooleanTRUE
enabled_defaultbooleanTRUE
google_keytextitsAbigLongSecret
google_urltexthttps://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech
greeting_max_lengthnumeric90
greeting_silence_secondsnumeric3
greeting_silence_thresholdnumeric200
json_enabledbooleanTRUE
keep_localbooleanTRUE
message_max_lengthnumeric300
message_ordertextasc
message_silence_secondsnumeric3
message_silence_thresholdnumeric200
not_found_messagebooleanFALSE
password_complexitybooleanTRUE
password_lengthnumeric8
password_min_lengthnumeric4
remote_accessbooleanFALSE
smtp_fromtext
smtp_from_nametext
storage_typetextbase64
transcribe_enabledbooleanTRUE
transcribe_languagetexten-US
transcribe_providertextgoogle
transcription_enabled_defaultbooleanTRUE
voicemail_filetextattach


Perhaps I need to copy some of these to my specifc domain?
Here's the settings for my domain.

TypeValueEnabled
methodtextsmtp
smtp_authtextTRUE
smtp_fromtextuser@googleDomain.com
smtp_from_nametextPBX
smtp_hosttextsmtp.gmail.com
smtp_hostnametextmyHost.myDomain.com
smtp_passwordtext***************
smtp_portnumeric587
smtp_securetexttls
smtp_usernametextuser@googleDomain.com
smtp_validate_certificatebooleanTRUE
 

volkswagner

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@junction1153 THANK YOU!

That worked a treat.
I updated the URL and all is well.

I really appreciate you taking the
time to document this and for
helping me directly.

Cheers!
 
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