Hi Chris, thanks, I don't know if this will be what the person needs or not, but I'll pass it along. Best, Donna
On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > There is Google's Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) which they have used for > their automated captions system in YouTube since 2009: > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html > > Not sure they let you access that piece alone so you might have to upload the > media to youtube first and then ask for captions to be generated. > > CB > > On 7/17/13 6:09 PM, 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 <mori...@mac.com> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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