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 <[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 havecontrol, or recorded speech from a person who is willing to readtraining text? Alternatively, are you looking to convert speech thatis, for example, broadcast, recorded from a speaker who will not trainthe software, or some other speaker over which you don't have anycontrol? The first is fairly simple. If you can have the speakerrecord his/her/its training speech on to a digital recorder, there areprograms which you can train using that recorded speech and they willthen recognise that particular speaker's recorded voice fairly well.If, however, you're after the second, for example, transcribing abroadcast recording, I know of nothing that will produce an acceptabletranscription 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 badhearing. If you find anything like this, then, please let the listknow.AmanOn 7/16/13, Donna Goodin wrote:Hello all,Does anyone know of any software that will take speech, not dictation butrecorded speech, and converted to text? It could either be mobile softwareor 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.
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