Voice to text software

[Monkey Tennis]

There's a company called Spinvox that I think used to do this sort of thing with their ground breaking voice recognition software. Except that was discovered to be mostly not down to the software - the sound files were being transcribed by an Indian call centre instead...

[AJS-]

Have a fairly long audio file I want to convert to text, and I'm way too lazy to type it all out manually. Surely some clever piece of software can recognise speech and turn it into text? (It is a very clear and correct voice) Anyone know the best way to do this?

[The Riddler]

10p a word, send me the file, I'll type it up..

[Man-At-Arms]

Monkey Tennis said:

There's a company called Spinvox

just been bought by Nuance

[Big Rod]

I'm pretty sure there's a plug in indigenous to word that types as you speak.

Can't for the life of me think what it's called though.

[LordGrover]

Standard, built into Windows 7.



ETA: WTF? I posted this at 09:53, not 08:53 as shown.

Edited by LordGrover on Friday 22 January 08:55

[GreenDog]

I think there's a company called Red Dragon who do this sort of thing - worth a Google.

[james_tigerwoods]

AJS- said:

Have a fairly long audio file I want to convert to text, and I'm way too lazy to type it all out manually. Surely some clever piece of software can recognise speech and turn it into text? (It is a very clear and correct voice) Anyone know the best way to do this?

"Dragon Dictate"

[Road2Ruin]

I beleive the voice recognition software was built into vist too. However I am not aware of any software interface that can do it with a WAV or MP3 file.

[Tiggsy]

I tried the stuff on vista and it sucks...i now use Dragon and its superb. All my letters/reports/etc i dictate - amazed how fast you can speak (clearly) and it keeps up. Things like phone numbers you can just ramble through and it gets it!

[steviegasgas]

LordGrover said:

Standard, built into Windows 7.



ETA: WTF? I posted this at 09:53, not 08:53 as shown.

Edited by LordGrover on Friday 22 January 08:55

This only lets you open various things on the comp, does not allow complete voice to text. There are some available out there, google "voice recognition software" and have a look.

[AJS-]

Thanks for the replies, helpful stuff.

10p a word?! Do you accept monopoly money?

[The Riddler]

Nigerian bank transfer only.

[AJS-]

The Riddler said:

Nigerian bank transfer only.

Me just sented you the audio file good sir and hope it find you well today, will sending 3,251.10 pense of pounds to Western Union of the name International Commerce Bank Nigeria, when i get my money come through from the late President Abumbo's (God rest his soul) daughter next week.

God bless you in the highest.



That reminds me, I haven't seen this fellow for a while

[TonyToniTone]

Tiggsy said:

i now use Dragon and its superb. All my letters/reports/etc i dictate - amazed how fast you can speak (clearly) and it keeps up. Things like phone numbers you can just ramble through and it gets it!

Do you use the standard or pro version?

[Tiggsy]

not sure...its called Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 and came with a bluetooth headset (which i switched for a USB one and its loads better)

It was about £100 if i recall...i think...may have been more, stuck it on the company.

[TonyToniTone]

The pro version is about £500 so must have be the standard one - seems pretty good value from what you say.
Cheers..

[cyberface]

Crazy paying that much for software....

The Google Nexus One 'smart' phone (that can't do email properly) will do voice-to-text just fine. It's reasonably good....

(just tried it out by speaking the above sentence, I don't have much of an accent, reasonably RP english, yadda yadda)

Nx1 reckons:

'Google nexus 1 smartphone go to voice to text just fine'

I do have an Airlock album playing in the background which could cause confusion, and it's clear that the Google software is using context and linguistic heuristics to guess the words it can't quite nail the phonemes of... but still not bad.

The problem with the phone solution is that it'll only do one sentence at a time (memory constraints, probably). Dictating a long passage is beyond the capability of the device.

[TonyToniTone]

It's not for myself but I don't think its too expensive - about £40 without hardware.

Did you find out if the nexus uses googles servers?

[cyberface]

TonyToniTone said:

It's not for myself but I don't think its too expensive - about £40 without hardware.

Did you find out if the nexus uses googles servers?

Appears to do the work on the device, actually - whether it sends some sort of digest back to Google's servers is unknown. But the voice recognition works even when it's got no network connection, so it can't be using Google's servers to do the calculations...