Speech to Text...

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Mon Oct 3 15:17:55 EDT 2016


it is very good, going both directions.  I just need to actually attach it
to this app...someday...

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:35 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> 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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