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 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
