Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for Uberi/speech_recognition, a Python project with 8,995 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 5,971 lines of code across 61 source files, recording 83 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 19.7 (Elevated pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 41 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 21 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 53 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 83 finding(s).
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Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 83 distinct pattern matches across 7 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | tests/test_audio.py | 204 | except ImportError: | CODE |
| HIGH | tests/test_audio.py | 245 | except ImportError: | CODE |
| HIGH | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 1195 | except (ModuleNotFoundError, ImportError): | CODE |
| HIGH | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 590 | except WaitTimeoutError: # listening timed out, just try again | CODE |
| HIGH | speech_recognition/audio.py | 528 | except OSError: | CODE |
| HIGH | speech_recognition/__main__.py | 23 | except KeyboardInterrupt: | CODE |
| HIGH | examples/threaded_workers.py | 43 | except KeyboardInterrupt: # allow Ctrl + C to shut down the program | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/test_recognition.py | 20 | def test_recognizer_attributes(self): | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | tests/test_audio.py | 133 | def test_returns_self_when_already_fits(self): | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | tests/test_audio.py | 139 | def test_raises_when_max_bytes_too_small(self): | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | tests/test_audio.py | 144 | def test_raises_on_unaligned_frame_data(self): | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | tests/test_audio.py | 154 | def test_raises_when_max_bytes_below_one_sample_per_width(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 174 | def test_fixed_split_chunks_fit_within_max_bytes(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 191 | def test_fixed_split_aligns_to_sample_boundary(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 198 | def test_silence_aware_raises_setup_error_without_librosa(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 216 | def test_silence_aware_translates_call_time_errors_to_setup_error(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 238 | def test_silence_aware_translates_lazy_runtime_errors_to_setup_error(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 282 | def test_to_float_ndarray_normalizes_each_sample_width(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 304 | def test_to_float_ndarray_decodes_little_endian_regardless_of_host(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 336 | def test_silence_aware_uses_single_nonsilent_range_boundary(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 368 | def test_silence_aware_respects_byte_budget_strictly(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 391 | def test_silence_aware_respects_byte_budget_on_realistic_audio(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 423 | def test_silence_aware_snaps_to_speech_end_within_lookback(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 464 | def test_silence_aware_splits_at_silence_boundary(self): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_cohere_api.py | 12 | def test_transcribe_default_model(mock_client_cls): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_cohere_api.py | 37 | def test_transcribe_with_language(mock_client_cls): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_google_cloud.py | 21 | def test_transcribe_with_google_cloud_speech(SpeechClient): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_google_cloud.py | 56 | def test_transcribe_with_specified_credentials(SpeechClient): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_google_cloud.py | 149 | def test_transcribe_with_specified_api_parameters(SpeechClient): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_vosk.py | 23 | def test_recognize_vosk_verbose(audio_data): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_google.py | 68 | def test_parse_without_confidence( | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/test_google.py | 86 | def test_parse_with_confidence( | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_openai.py | 22 | def test_transcribe_with_openai_whisper(setenv_openai_api_key: None) -> None: | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_openai.py | 56 | def test_transcribe_with_gpt_transcribe(setenv_openai_api_key: None) -> None: | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_openai.py | 93 | def test_transcribe_with_specified_language(setenv_openai_api_key: None) -> None: | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_openai.py | 125 | def test_transcribe_with_specified_prompt(setenv_openai_api_key: None) -> None: | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_groq.py | 14 | def test_transcribe_with_groq_whisper(respx_mock, monkeypatch): | CODE |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_api/test_openai_compatible.py | 10 | def test_transcribe_with_openai_compatible_api(httpserver, monkeypatch): | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 395 | def snowboy_wait_for_hot_word(self, snowboy_location, snowboy_hot_word_files, source, timeout=None): | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 203 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 223 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 224 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 244 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 274 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 275 | CODE | |
| LOW | tests/recognizers/whisper_local/test_faster_whisper.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 5 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/audio.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/google_cloud.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/pocketsphinx.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/google.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/cohere_api.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/vosk.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_local/whisper.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | …ecognition/recognizers/whisper_local/faster_whisper.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_local/base.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_api/groq.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_api/groq.py | 7 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_api/openai.py | 1 | CODE | |
| LOW | examples/tensorflow_commands.py | 4 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/test_audio.py | 276 | except Exception as exc: | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 153 | except Exception: | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 177 | except Exception: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 877 | print('Error creating bucket %s: %s' % (bucket_name, exc)) | CODE |
| MEDIUM | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 896 | print('Error getting job:', exc.response) | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 929 | except Exception as exc: | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 942 | except Exception as exc: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 977 | print('Error starting job:', exc.response) | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/audio.py | 143 | except Exception as exc: | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/audio.py | 206 | except Exception as exc: | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 128 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 231 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 466 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 572 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 825 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 585 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/cli.py | 12 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/audio.py | 483 | CODE | |
| LOW | speech_recognition/audio.py | 136 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 1209 | # =============================== | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | speech_recognition/__init__.py | 1211 | # =============================== | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/cohere_api.py | 9 | logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) | CODE |
| LOW | speech_recognition/recognizers/whisper_api/base.py | 6 | logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) | CODE |