docs: def _create_folder(self):
  
          ''' a helper method for creating a temporary audio clip folder '''
  
      # import dependencies
          import os
          from labpack.platforms.localhost import localhostClient
          from labpack.records.id import labID
  
      # create folder in user app data
          record_id = labID()
          collection_name = 'Watson Speech2Text'
          localhost_client = localhostClient()
          app_folder = localhost_client.app_data(org_name=__team__, prod_name=__module__)
          if localhost_client.os in ('Linux', 'FreeBSD', 'Solaris'):
              collection_name = collection_name.replace(' ', '-').lower()
          collection_folder = os.path.join(app_folder, collection_name)
          clip_folder = os.path.join(collection_folder, record_id.id24)
          if not os.path.exists(clip_folder):
              os.makedirs(clip_folder)
  
          return clip_folder