[clug] linux speech to text? [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

I recall a couple of years back IBM open-sourced their speech recognition software:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/28/2226253

I've known a few people who have had RSI issues and nearly all have ended up using the proprietary Dragon Naturally Speaking product. This software requires trahing to recognise an individual's idiosyncracies, high grade audio hardware, measured speech patterns & low ambient noise. Even then the results are sometimes amusing. I wonder just how well alternatie products might handle audio without these pre-conditions (i.e. random people captured on a cheap mic talking at 100 to the dozen in a noisy room).

I was watching TV at a café last week and they had the closed captions on as it was too noisy to hear. The captions are obviously automatically generated as some of the subtitles were rather amusing. On the whole, the results were pretty impressive considering the above factors.

You could always get some VC funding for a combined voice Captcha and transcription service and people will pay to transcribe your notes for you. ;-p

Cheers,

Antti 

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Subject: [clug] linux speech to text?


 Hi All

does anyone know of a decent speech-to-text utility for linux?

I would like to auto-transcribe mp3 recordings to text...

Cheers
Tomasz
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