# Is it possible to read audio in ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428 "2019-05-09T18:18:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428/1 "2019-05-09T18:18:13Z")

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i am using fscrawle and tesseract to index and read data from images , pdf,word but now i need to treat audio is there any solution? can i format audio to text and serahc words within it

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428/2 "2019-05-09T20:19:46Z")

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FSCrawler only extracts metadata of audio files. You need to process that by yourself with a 3rd party system.

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**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428/3 "2019-05-10T01:32:01Z")

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is it possible to convert audio to text i mean extract tet from audio , can you give me a tool to do that, i want just convert it to text and serach words on it

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428/4 "2019-05-10T05:55:48Z")

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No. You need to process that by yourself with a 3rd party system.

That being said it could be a nice feature request to ask in FSCrawler. Note that as it requires most likely a paid service using external APIs this would slowdown the service and could cost.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-read-audio-in-es/180428/5 "2019-06-07T05:55:56Z")

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