Speech to Text...

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Mon Oct 3 13:35:00 EDT 2016


My own opinion is that the speech to text field is still in flux but the
gold standard is Dragon.

Apple's tech got better with Siri, but she still screwed up a lot.

Dragon 6's new tech with a LOT of AI can do a very high rate of accuracy
with very little or NO training, and it seems to transcribe recorded speech
very well, too. I will find out today if it is apple scriptable.

Dragon 6 is the first version that I didn't give up on the first use.

Methinks there are more than a few applications like OCR and Speech where
it isn't worth the ROI to re-invent the market leader in some feature just
for workflow convenience..

 if Dragon leased, their code, that would be another thing, but I am pretty
sure they are not and it was obvious from the first use is that it is very
superior to anything I've ever used.  And it's a bit of a dance to help it
get it's hooks into the user's system. I could see from the quality of the
app that they spent a lot of time developing this version. Beautiful work
on Mac.

Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> I don't remember what sort of arrangement we did with Monte, but we had him
> write speech<-->text hooking to dragon, last year.  I'm embarrassed to say
> that the app that I wanted it for isn't far enough along that I can even
> try it out for real, yet.
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In my experience on Android at least, a LiveCode field or a native field
> > will invoke the popup keyboard.  So touching the microphone icon on the
> > keyboard converts speech to text into the focussed field.  It just works.
> >
> > Other platforms... I haven't tried.
> >
> > ~Roger
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The current OCR thread on this list, prompted me to ask a questions
> I've
> > > been meaning to post for some time:
> > >
> > > Has anyone out there tried using CMU Sphinx
> > > (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/) with live code to perform *any*
> sort
> > > of speech to text work, whether that is feeding a prerecorded file
> > > through pocketsphinx or processing audio in real time?
> > >
> > > I am interested in Sphinx because it is open source and cross-platform
> > > vs trying to hook into Apple Dictate on OSX and Windows Speech
> > > Recognition on Windows and yet something else for other platforms.
> > > However, if someone knows of some OTHER free cross-platform speech
> > > recognition system, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Google is
> > > cross-platform, being hosted, but is commercial for any volume over x
> > > minutes per month (I think 60).
> > >
> > > I'd be very interested in hearing about any work any one may be doing
> in
> > > this area on or off list.
> > >
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