
Using SoX to convert audio files in r
R is an awesome application for data science, but it does have it’s limitations. Working with .wav files for instance, in my PhD, brought up some important issues. Early on, the most important of these was how to convert audio files obtained from industry sources into a format that played nicely...
Simulating data using R
Simulating data is nothing new. It come up in a number of scenarios: You’re wanting to teach some fancy new r-trick to someone and need some data fast! You’re wanting to try out some wiz-bang new r-package, and need some data to play with. You’re wanting to simulate a study you’ve read...
Speech to text transcription using googleLanguageR
Ever thought about speech to text transcription? Got a pile of voice recordings that you’re trying to convert to text? Well read on! googleLanguageR is a simple but powerful R-utility that uses the Google Speech engine to translate spoken word to text, and vice-versa. Amazing! Although the text...
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