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Unable to improve transcription accuracy with speech adaptation boost

I'm using SpeechRecognition Python library to perform Speech to Text operations. I'm using the recognize_google_cloud function to use Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API.
Here is my code:
import speech_recognition as sr;
import json;
j = '';
with open('key.json', 'r') as f:
j = f.read().replace('\n', '');
js = json.loads(j);
r = sr.Recognizer();
mic = sr.Microphone();
with candide as source:
audio = r.record(source);
print(r.recognize_google_cloud(audio, language='fr-FR', preferred_phrases=['pistoles', 'disait'], credentials_json=j));
The function recognize_google_cloud send the data captured by the microphone to Google API and selects the most probable transcription of the given speech among a set of alternatives.
The parameter preferered_phrases, as explained in this page of the documentation, is used to select an other alternative that contains the listed words.
It is possible to improve these results using speech adaptation boost. As the version of the SpeechRecognition library doesn't let us to specify a boost value, I updated the speech_recognition/__init__.py file with an hard-coded boost value:
if preferred_phrases is not None:
speech_config["speechContexts"] = {"phrases": preferred_phrases, "boost": 19}
Unfortunately, when I execute my code, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pierre/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 931, in recognize_google_cloud
response = request.execute()
File "/home/pierre/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/googleapiclient/_helpers.py", line 134, in positional_wrapper
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/pierre/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 915, in execute
raise HttpError(resp, content, uri=self.uri)
googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:recognize?alt=json returned "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "boost" at 'config.speech_contexts': Cannot find field.". Details: "[{'#type': 'type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest', 'fieldViolations': [{'field': 'config.speech_contexts', 'description': 'Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "boost" at \'config.speech_contexts\': Cannot find field.'}]}]">
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "spech_reco.py", line 23, in <module>
print(r.recognize_google_cloud(audio, language='fr-FR', preferred_phrases=['pistoles', 'disait'], credentials_json=j));
File "/home/pierre/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 933, in recognize_google_cloud
raise RequestError(e)
speech_recognition.RequestError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:recognize?alt=json returned "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "boost" at 'config.speech_contexts': Cannot find field.". Details: "[{'#type': 'type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest', 'fieldViolations': [{'field': 'config.speech_contexts', 'description': 'Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "boost" at \'config.speech_contexts\': Cannot find field.'}]}]">
Is there an error in my request?

I understand that you are modifying the speech_recognition/__init__.py file of the SpeechRecognition library in order to include the "boost" parameter in your request.
When reviewing this file I noticed that it is using the 'v1' version of the API; however, the "boost" parameter is only supported in the ‘v1p1beta1’ version
Therefore, another of the adaptations that you could make in the code is the following:
`speech_service = build ("speech","v1p1beta1", credentials = api_credentials, cache_discovery = False)`
With this modification you should no longer see the BadRequest error.
At the same time, please consider that this library is a third-party library that uses the Google Speech-to-text API internally. Therefore, if this library does not cover all your current needs, another alternative could create your own implementation directly using the Speech-to-text API Python Client library.

How To Retrieve Folder Tree With Smartsheets API Python

I'm trying to retrieve sheets with Users.list_org_sheets(include_all=True) from the Python SDK API.
With That I can see all the things I need :
lstorg = ss.Users.list_org_sheets(include_all=True)
for entry in lstorg.data:
print(entry.id)
print(entry.name)
ss is the smartsheet.Smartsheet(token).
So with that i can see all the sheets in my domain, but when i try to download them with get_sheet_as_excel(id, path) I got that error:
print(ss.Sheets.get_sheet('6157394402142084'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
print(ss.Sheets.get_sheet('6157394402142084')
File "E:\Python\lib\site-packages\smartsheet\sheets.py", line 525, in get_sheet
response = self._base.request(prepped_request, expected, _op)
File "E:\Python\lib\site-packages\smartsheet\smartsheet.py", line 218, in request
raise the_ex(native, str(native.result.code) + ': ' + native.result.message)
smartsheet.exceptions.ApiError: {"requestResponse": null, "result": {"code": 1006, "message": "Not Found", "name": "ApiError", "recommendation": "Do not retry without fixing the problem. ", "refId": null, "shouldRetry": false, "statusCode": 404}}
I guess that this error mean that he didn't find the file (Error 404) but I don't know why, just before i make the command to get a list of all sheets and then when i pick one of that (that i'm not owner with this token but the token is SysAdmin)
Thanks For the help

The situation you're describing is due to how permissions work in Smartsheet. Using the SysAdmin token, you can successfully get the list of all Sheets owned by members of the account, but the SysAdmin token will not allow you to access the contents of those sheets, unless that SysAdmin user has been explicitly granted access to the sheets. You're getting the "not found" error when you try to retrieve the sheet because the SysAdmin user hasn't explicitly been granted access to that sheet in Smartsheet.
To actually retrieve a sheet that's listed in the "List Org Sheets" response, you'll need to add the Assume-User header to the "Get Sheet" API request to impersonate the sheet owner. You can find documentation about the Assume-User header here: https://smartsheet-platform.github.io/api-docs/#http-headers.

Python: how to login on Youtube

So, I'm a bit confused on how I get past authentication on Youtube using Python and successfully login. I always get error 403 when I try to PragmaticLogin():
yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
service.developer_key = 'MY Key'
service.client_id='My ID'
service.email = 'myemail#yahoo.gr'
service.password = 'mypassword'
service.source = 'my_program'
service.ProgrammaticLogin()
What do I have to do?
Update:
I think that it has to do with authentication. Do I need both developer_key and client_id? Where do I get each? I want to have rights to add comments to my videos etc.
Full error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bodhi32/Documents/bot.py", line 9, in <module>
client.ClientLogin(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gdata/service.py", line 833, in ClientLogin
self.ProgrammaticLogin(captcha_token, captcha_response)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gdata/service.py", line 796, in ProgrammaticLogin
raise Error, 'Server responded with a 403 code'
gdata.service.Error: Server responded with a 403 code

ClientLogin is deprecated and has all sorts of errors. Don't use it.
Use OAuth2.
This sample should get you started:
https://github.com/youtube/api-samples/blob/master/python/my_uploads.py

Use your code but make sure you fill the developer_key and client_id fields ( check below how to get them).
yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
service.developer_key = 'MY Key'
service.client_id='My ID'
service.email = 'myemail#yahoo.gr'
service.password = 'mypassword'
service.source = 'my_program'
service.ProgrammaticLogin()
To obtain a youtube api go to
https://cloud.google.com/console/project and create a new project, then enable youtube.
Check this video for more info Obtaining a simple API key for use with the YouTube API

Python Youtube API: Attempt to access Watch Later results in invalid URI

BELIEVED SOLVED: Python API only supports v1, while watch later was added in v2. SOURCE
SOLUTION: Use "Experimental" API v3
I am attempting to use the Youtube API to access my Watch Later playlist. Below is the code I am using.
import gdata.youtube
import gdata.youtube.service
yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
yt_service.ssl = True
yt_service.developer_key = 'REDACTED'
yt_service.email = 'REDACTED'
yt_service.password = 'REDACTED'
yt_service.ProgrammaticLogin()
playlist_uri = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/watch_later?v=2'
playlist_video_feed = yt_service.GetYouTubePlaylistVideoFeed(uri=playlist_uri)
for playlist_video_entry in playlist_video_feed.entry:
print playlist_video_entry.title.text
I am receiving the following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Youtube.py", line 21, in <module>
playlist_video_feed = yt_service.GetYouTubePlaylistVideoFeed(uri=playlist_uri)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gdata/youtube/service.py", line 393, in GetYouTubePlaylistVideoFeed
uri, converter=gdata.youtube.YouTubePlaylistVideoFeedFromString)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gdata/service.py", line 1108, in Get
'reason': server_response.reason, 'body': result_body}
gdata.service.RequestError: {'status': 400, 'body': 'Invalid request URI', 'reason': 'Bad Request'}
It would seem the URI https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/watch_later?v=2 is invalid. However this is the one stated to be used in the google documents. Am I using it wrong, or is there another issue here?
In addition if I change the URI to http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/63F0C78739B09958 it works as expected.

You should check your authentication. According to Retrieving and updating a user's 'Watch Later' playlist:
Again, the link will only be present in a profile entry if either of
the following conditions is true:
You submit an authenticated request to retrieve the logged-in user's
own profile.
The watch_later playlist is publicly available for the user whose
profile you are retrieving.
The API server will return a 40x HTTP response code if you try to
retrieve a watch_later playlist and neither of the above conditions is
true.
The second link would work most likely due to the second publicly available condition being met. One thing I do notice missing from your example is the client id/source:
# A complete client login request
yt_service.email = 'jo#gmail.com'
yt_service.password = 'mypassword'
yt_service.source = 'my-example-application'
yt_service.developer_key = 'ABC123...'
yt_service.client_id = 'my-example-application'
yt_service.ProgrammaticLogin()
You should look into that and ensure that your authentication is happening properly.

How to use refresh_access_token in the Yahoo Social Python SDK

I'm trying to use the Yahoo Social Python SDK to get a users contacts through oAuth. This is for a webapp running on App Engine. SO, I have everything set up to run through the oAuth dance, exchanging consumer keys and verifiers and all that jazz. I store the token and can reuse it to retrieve a users contacts until the token the expires an hour later. So, is there anyone out there who has used the Python SDK and can tell me what is wrong with this simple code:
import yahoo.application
CONSUMER_KEY = '####'
CONSUMER_SECRET = '##'
APPLICATION_ID = '##'
CALLBACK_URL = '##'
oauthapp = yahoo.application.OAuthApplication(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, APPLICATION_ID, CALLBACK_URL)
oauthapp.token = yahoo.oauth.AccessToken.from_string(access_token) #access_token is legit string pulled from datastore
oauthapp.token = oauthapp.refresh_access_token(oauthapp.token)
contacts = oauthapp.getContacts()
Running this throws the following error:
'oauth_token'<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 513, in __call__<br>
handler.post(*groups)<br>
File "/base/data/home/apps/testproj/2.345270664321958961/scripteditor.py", line 1249, in post<br>
oauthapp.token = oauthapp.refresh_access_token(oauthapp.token)<br>
File "/base/data/home/apps/testproj/2.345270664321958961/yahoo/application.py", line 90, in refresh_access_token<br>
self.token = self.client.fetch_access_token(request)<br>
File "/base/data/home/apps/testproj/2.345270664321958961/yahoo/oauth.py", line 165, in fetch_access_token<br>
return AccessToken.from_string(self.connection.getresponse().read().strip())<br>
File "/base/data/home/apps/testproj/2.345270664321958961/yahoo/oauth.py", line 130, in from_string<br>
key = params['oauth_token'][0]<br>
KeyError: 'oauth_token'<br>
Basically, if I comment out the line with refresh_access_token, and the token has not expired, this code works and I get the users contacts. But with refresh_acces_token, it fails at that line. Can anyone give a hand?

Looks like something wrong with passing params. Try to debug oauth_token variable.

Solved. For reasons I can't understand, the above code now just works. It might have been a problem on yahoo's end, but I really can't be sure. It's been running fine for two weeks.