I want to be able to use the MS speech SDK to transcribe speech to text. I got this sample from the Microsoft documentation but it gives me the error "program does not contain a static 'main' method suitable for an entry point" when I try to build the solution.
What am I doing wrong? What should I do to make it work?
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech;
using Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech.Audio;
namespace SpeechToText
{
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
// Creates an instance of a speech config with specified subscription key and service region.
// Replace with your own subscription key and service region (e.g., "westus").
var config = SpeechConfig.FromSubscription("5626c4797ab3c6d061b8", "Werope");
var stopRecognition = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
// Creates a speech recognizer using file as audio input.
// Replace with your own audio file name.
using (var audioInput = AudioConfig.FromWavFileInput(@"whatstheweatherlike.wav"))
{
using (var recognizer = new SpeechRecognizer(config, audioInput))
{
// Subscribes to events.
recognizer.Recognizing += (s, e) =>
{
Console.WriteLine($"RECOGNIZING: Text={e.Result.Text}");
};
recognizer.Recognized += (s, e) =>
{
if (e.Result.Reason == ResultReason.RecognizedSpeech)
{
Console.WriteLine($"RECOGNIZED: Text={e.Result.Text}");
}
else if (e.Result.Reason == ResultReason.NoMatch)
{
Console.WriteLine($"NOMATCH: Speech could not be recognized.");
}
};
recognizer.Canceled += (s, e) =>
{
Console.WriteLine($"CANCELED: Reason={e.Reason}");
if (e.Reason == CancellationReason.Error)
{
Console.WriteLine($"CANCELED: ErrorCode={e.ErrorCode}");
Console.WriteLine($"CANCELED: ErrorDetails={e.ErrorDetails}");
Console.WriteLine($"CANCELED: Did you update the subscription info?");
}
stopRecognition.TrySetResult(0);
};
recognizer.SessionStarted += (s, e) =>
{
Console.WriteLine("\n Session started event.");
};
recognizer.SessionStopped += (s, e) =>
{
Console.WriteLine("\n Session stopped event.");
Console.WriteLine("\nStop recognition.");
stopRecognition.TrySetResult(0);
};
// Starts continuous recognition. Uses StopContinuousRecognitionAsync() to stop recognition.
await recognizer.StartContinuousRecognitionAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
// Waits for completion.
// Use Task.WaitAny to keep the task rooted.
Task.WaitAny(new[] { stopRecognition.Task });
// Stops recognition.
await recognizer.StopContinuousRecognitionAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
}
}
}