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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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:05 AM
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Subject: Using Siri or Dragon to transpose radio speech into text/braille?
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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