Hi aman,
before I provide options, let me explain clearly what I mean.
Let's say I have registered for a class on emotional freedom technique.
The class takes place via phone and on the web, and is recorded for later
download. Additionally one can get a transcript of this recording. No
training of the software could take place because the guests callers
differ. equally no one types the transcripts because the turn around time
is immediate.
When I asked about this kind of program a few months back, I found a few
windows options. additionally I will ask those conducting such classes
what programs they use.
Give me a day, it is well into the 95 degree range in Toronto with humidity
well above 100. I can only work in my office so long before the lack of
air conditioning gets to me.
Karen
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Aman Singer wrote:
Hi, Karen.
If I may ask, would you be so good as to send us the names of the
applications, even Windows applications, that can change speech in a
WAV file to text for summits? I'm after something that will work to a
reasonable level of accuracy without getting the speaker/sound
producer to train the application. There are quite a few programs
which will do well when the speaker trains them, speaks directly into
a microphone, and minimizes background noise. Alternatively, there are
a ton of packages which will do well with a limited vocabulary of, for
example, specific commands. What would be wonderful is something that
can, without human correction of each file, attain reasonable accuracy
so that a reader can understand what is produced, and can do this
without requiring the speaker to train the application. That is, I'm
after something which is not specific to the speaker or to a small
vocabulary. I believe this is what Donna wants, as well. I have
experimented with Dragon and Via Voice, when that last was being
produced, and have had very poor results without training and only
acceptable results with training.
Aman
On 7/17/13, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
Perhaps I am not understanding the goal here. still there are many
windows programs that will take, say the audio from an .wav file and
convert
that information into text.
In fact the process is very common for telesummits.
I am guessing though that your desire is something else entirely?
Karen
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi Esther,
That's interesting, I've never heard about it before. I imagine you're
right that the logistics of creating software that could reliably convert
speech to text without training, would just be impractical.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote:
Hi Donna and Aman,
I think it's not that what you're looking for doesn't exist, but that
there aren't commercially available solutions. Back in 2005-2006,
shortly after the original MacVisionaries list got started, there was a
podcast search engine named PodZinger, later renamed EveryZing. I think
it must have been running a version of the continuous speech recognition
system that the company responsible for this effort, BBN, started
developing about a decade earlier. At that time the number of broadcast
podcasts was much smaller than now. The PodZinger search engine let you
type in a phrase or set of keywords, and then it would pull up a match to
identified podcasts, and even estimate the time the phrase occurred
within the podcast. It was sort of like doing a Google search for
podcast audio content, and pretty impressive. You had to type in enough
words in the search term to identify the context, because just like a
Google search you'd get a short section of matched content, but you
didn't have to really type more than you would for a Google search. I
think this service was only around for a couple of years.
Probably this was an outgrowth of Department of Defense funded research.
You ca probably do a web search to read more details. I don't know of
anything like that exisiting commercially, and you'd probably need to
have a huge training set (like the database of Siri users with different
accents and speech patterns) to train the software.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:51:34 AM UTC-10, Donna wrote:
Hi, Aman,
Unfortunately, it was the latter. I kind of didn't think that there was
anything that could do this, but I figured if it was out there, someone
on this list would know about it.
thank you for responding, if nothing else, it's good to be sure that
what I was looking for doesn't exist.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Aman Singer wrote:
Hi, Donna.
If I may ask, what sort of speech are you looking to convert? That is,
are you looking to convert speech from a speaker over which you have
control, or recorded speech from a person who is willing to read
training text? Alternatively, are you looking to convert speech that
is, for example, broadcast, recorded from a speaker who will not train
the software, or some other speaker over which you don't have any
control? The first is fairly simple. If you can have the speaker
record his/her/its training speech on to a digital recorder, there are
programs which you can train using that recorded speech and they will
then recognise that particular speaker's recorded voice fairly well.
If, however, you're after the second, for example, transcribing a
broadcast recording, I know of nothing that will produce an acceptable
transcription without human input. If you find such a thing, however,
I, along with quite a few other people, would be overjoyed, this,
particularly in real-time, would be a godsend to those of us with bad
hearing. If you find anything like this, then, please let the list
know.
Aman
On 7/16/13, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone know of any software that will take speech, not dictation
but
recorded speech, and converted to text? It could either be mobile
software
or software for the Mac.
Thanks,
Donna
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