Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://cloud.google.com/speech/ > > Sad, but there are no free software solutions available in this > area; at least I'm not aware of them completely. This is > understandable: the task is extraordinary in both manpower and > computational resources required.
Actually there are some open source speech recognition programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software Sphinx2 and Sphinx3 are even available as gentoo ebuilds (app-accessibility/sphinx2 and app-accessibility/sphinx3). Sphinx4 as well as a lots of information about it is available here: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ A German language model can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/German%20Voxforge/ However I don't know how much effort will be necessary to get the whole thing working for your purposes. > And what Google offers here is not even a proprietary application, > but an access to a proprietary cloud service which is temporarily > free of charge as long as it is in alpha-testing stage. That's right. Beside the fact that every spoken word will be transfered to Google (bad enough), it will not be free of charge for ever. -- Regards wabe
