Hi, Karen. This is exactly what I'm after. If you could let us know what is being used, I would appreciate it. Obviously, at your convenience. Aman
On 7/18/13, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > 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? 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