Hi Pete, I'm afraid that the answer's still the same: use a human. Here's an article describing the state of the art: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/spinvox_demo_day/ - the links to previous stories at the bottom provide good background.
--Dave > I apologize, I should have been more clear. We will be using humans > to scan the translated results. But we are looking for a system to > perform the "first pass" on the audio to hopefully help the human type > less. > > Although the question has been raised if it's faster to have a human > just transcribe the whole thing, or fix up what the computer spit out. > If you have any insights on this, that would be great. > > -pete > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] VoiceMail transcription > From: David Knell <d...@3c.co.uk> > Date: Mon, August 10, 2009 11:51 am > To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org > > Good evening Pete, > > The only way to do this is, I'm afraid, to use a human. We use > Amazon's > Mechanical Turk to good effect. > > Cheers -- > > Dave > > > Good morning all, > > > > I realize this is slightly off the FS topic, but I am > wondering if > > anyone out there has experience with software packages > designed for > > the transcription of voicemails to text. I've used > pocketsphinx with > > FS to handle IVR menus, but now have the task of figuring > out how to > > convert recorded phone conversations (voicemails mostly) to > text. > > > > This does not have to be a real-time process, I can store > the audio > > files and process them over time. This would need to be a > software > > (preferable open source) solution. ASPs like VoiceCloud > would not > > work for this application. > > > > Thanks for any help > > -pete > > _______________________________________________ > > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > > > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > > http://www.freeswitch.org > -- > David Knell, Director, 3C Limited > T: +44 20 3298 2000 > E: d...@3c.co.uk > W: http://www.3c.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org -- David Knell, Director, 3C Limited T: +44 20 3298 2000 E: d...@3c.co.uk W: http://www.3c.co.uk _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
