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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >>>> >> > > -- > 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.
