Allow for non-English transcription with Rev.AI

[emdupre]

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Currently, it's not obvious how to request languages other than English when using the RevAISpeechAPIConverter. From their docs it's clear that requests can include a number of languages (including French, which is my use case !), but it's not obvious how to add that param in a pliers call.

From my understanding, the transcription option will not automatically infer the language; instead, that should be supplied by the user or done in a first-pass language identification step.

I believe RevAISpeechAPIConverter would need to accept a new language parameter that could then be passed here: https://github.com/PsychoinformaticsLab/pliers/blob/9b10b27e70c3fbb7647eb1c70e031f55d824f3f6/pliers/converters/api/revai.py#L73-L77

Does that sound approximately correct / Would that be of interest ?

[adelavega]

Looks like an enhanceement.... @qmac what do you think?

[emdupre]

Just following up on this ! Let me know if this is a welcome addition, and I'd be happy to add it.

[adelavega]

It looks good to me, and I'm inferring from @qmac's reaction (he works for Rev ;) that it makes sense. Would be awesome if you could!

[qmac]

Yep! I think your suggestion is all that's needed! You'll need version >= 2.11.0 of the python sdk too.