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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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