aws-transcription-to-vtt

Takes the JSON from Amazon AWS Transcribe and outputs a VTT file.

I couldn't find a module satisfying all of these criteria:

• has documentation
• has tests
• pure es module
• 0 dependencies
• is tiny (< 150 lines of code)

so here we are.

inspired by https://github.com/s2texperiments/aws-transcription-to-subtitle

api

const vtt = vttConvert(json)

json is an object returned from Amazon's transcribe service

returns a string consisting of the json converted to vtt format.

full example

import vttConvert from 'aws-transcription-to-vtt'


const json = {
    results: {
        transcripts: [
            {
                transcript: "Wait."
            }
        ],
        items: [
            {
                start_time: "7.84",
                end_time: "12.87",
                alternatives: [
                    {
                        confidence: "0.4523",
                        content: "Wait"
                    }
                ],
                type: "pronunciation"
            },
            {
                alternatives: [
                    {
                        confidence: null,
                        content: "."
                    }
                ],
                type: "punctuation"
            }
        ]
    }
}

const vtt = vttConvert(json)

json is an object returned from Amazon's transcribe service

returns a string consisting of the json converted to vtt format.

testing

npm test

2.0.0

• drop commonjs
• remove tap dependency
• use node's builtin test runner
• add a changelog