Hi Aman,
The "In Touch" programme also has a transcription service, so, if
preferred, one can read the text of the various interviews. This feature of
accessibility is due to human transcribers and so is not something that is
provided for many of Radio 4's programmes.
Perhaps, contacting the developers of Dragon and or Apple with Siri, might
result in a specific app which will allow for longer chunks of speech to be
recorded. I know that what is needed is something that transcribes on the fly,
but even if we could start y practising with longer extracts, advances might be
made toward that end.
This reminds me of the early days of scanning and Kurtzweil, when, often,
the results were less than faithful, but with time and development, scanning
results have improved exponentially, this might also be true of Speech to text.
It seems obvious to me, given Siri's ability to understand, under optimal
conditions, a person's voice, nearly in real time, that all this is possible
and is only a question of computing power and speed.I feel about this the way I
felt about Prizmo some years ago, that is is doable and that, while we may have
to accept bad results for a while, we can work on this and improve it, if only
development is pushed in that direction. If, for example, an app could be
developed to work along with Siri, or the dictation function on the keyboard,
and which could be allowed to hog as much CpU power as is necessary, I wonder
if we could see improvements in results?
I know that I am an innocent abroad with regard to all things technical,
but it seems obvious to me that this is potentially a doable thing with our
iPhones.
One other thought: the ability to transcribe from speech to text could be
most useful in the mainstream for meetings and, dare I say it, surveylence,
maybe, as with other voice applications, we can be the Guinee-pigs! Things
always move on faster when mainstream motivated IMHO.
Sandy.
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On 13 Jun 2013, at 23:39, "Aman Singer" <aman.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Sandy and all.
> This is rather an interesting idea, and it's one I've tried with
> several products myself. My own hearing is so problematic that I am strongly
> tempted to braille over speech, particularly when I don't have time to have
> things repeated or can't ask. It would even be a step forward if I could get
> human speech into a state fit to be spoken by Jaws, I find computerized
> voices a good deal less of a problem.
> Anyhow, though I have no wish to go off topic, I have tried this
> with Dragon, ViaVoice, and several microphones without any success. The text
> is either illegible or nearly so. The audio is fairly good, if I give it to
> a human being he can understand it, so it's not an audio problem, it's a
> recognition issue. Though Nuance has stated that training is not really
> required for current versions of Dragon, it certainly helps. Background
> noises of any sort only make things worse, and there is always some sort of
> background noise. I would be most interested if anyone has tried this sort
> of thing with Siri. I have not tried it for several reasons, including the
> inability to easily use a decent wireless microphone with Siri, the fact
> that Siri is limited in the amount of time it will allow one to dictate
> without stopping, and the fact that it requires internet connectivity. If
> anyone has managed to overcome these issues with Siri, or if anyone has
> gotten an untrained program to recognize a normal speaker over long periods,
> whether remotely or locally, I would appreciate hearing of it. I will have a
> look at In Touch this week, Sandy, with thanks for letting us know about it.
> Aman
>
>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was just listening to a programme on radio 4 UK, called "In touch".
> This is a weekly prog dedicated to the interests of the VIP community. This
> time it was looking at the potential of using voice recognition to provide
> Deaf Blind people with a transcript of radio programmes. I should mention,
> for those who don't know it, Radio 4 is primarily a speech based service as
> apposed to music based. There is a scheme afoot, in the States, using
> centralised computing power to begin this service for some radio stations
> there. Now, this got me thinking, couldn't Siri/Dragon do this for us
> directly on our phones? Has anyone come across an app that already does
> this, or am i in the vanguard here?
>
> Personally, I don't, at this moment, need such a service, but I think,
> this might be useful to some of our members, especially, if, instead of
> waiting for national efforts, we could do it for ourselves. I do see so many
> apps appearing, seemingly, after the horse has bolted, as it were, offering
> functionality to us, the which we already have through the mainstream, but
> an app of this sort might actually offer a new form of access to a
> subsection of VIP iPhone users and increase their access to the spoken word
> in a meaningful way. Also, I am thinking, seeing as many of these apps
> actually learn as they are used, it might provide the basis of voice to text
> recognition on the fly.
>
> Am I making sense? Does this thought seem useful or am I behind the
> times?
>
> JMT, Sandy.
>
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