Voice recognition software?

[pgoat]

Someone at my job needs software that supposedly exists which can transcribe spoken word (from a video or audio source - NOT live dictation) to a text document, which you can then search (such as with a Word or PDF file).

Does anyone have any info or leads on where to get this? Thanks in advance...

 

[C-dot]

The most popular one is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You can download it via bittorrent.

Not too vintage, though...

 

[pgoat]

I know, sorry...we were desperate!

 

[C-dot]

Hope it works!

 

[pgoat]

Thanks. Hope so too; Dragon seems to be the most popular for this application....

 

[Carlisle Blues]

The most popular one is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You can download it via bittorrent.

Not too vintage, though...

I had that C-Dot and it worked ok ......It took a while to get through my New York accent and the words came out crazy....but at the time i had surgery on my hand and needed that.

Good recommendation!!!

 

[Johnnysan]

I have used Dragon Naturally Speaking for several years now. It may take a few sessions to train it to recognize the particular nuances of your speech patterns, but it works well straight out of the box and gets better with time. My only advice is to ALWAYS proof-read your documents before finalizing them. Overall though, a great program.

 

[pgoat]

Thanks gentlemen. Did you ever try it with an audio or video file?

 

[Creeping Past]

I've used Dragon at work and it's fast, easy and accurate. So I got the Mac version (Dictate) for home use and it's — slow, difficult and ridiculously inaccurate, even though I'm an experienced user.

Thumbs up for Dragon on the PC, thumbs down for Dictate, the Mac version.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

You cannot use Naturally speaking for Audio files that I am aware of...but Dragon make another product which might well work for audio and video files...or it would seem to be so.


http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/sdk/sdk_audiomining.asp

 

[Miss Neecerie]

You cannot use Naturally speaking for Audio files that I am aware of...but Dragon make another product which might well work for audio and video files...or it would seem to be so and give you the searchable index you are looking for.


http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/sdk/sdk_audiomining.asp


By using an advanced speaker-independent dictation engine, Dragon AudioMining creates XML speech index data for every word spoken within an audio file. The index data includes word, time stamp, confidence levels and metadata associated with the speech information, and can be created from broadcast and telephony-quality sources. Ideal for application and Web developers, system integrators and OEM customers, the Dragon AudioMining SDK enables XML speech indexing and search capabilities to be added to commercial, Web and custom applications.

 

[pgoat]

Thanks so much, Miss N - that is precisely what we'd need.:eusa_clap

My guess is it will not work very well for the types of files we'd want to transcribe, but they wanted to at least know our options....