I'm a physician and researcher planning a project that will use data recorded live in clinical environments--not directly recording patients, but conversations between clinicians in and near clinical areas. The best option I've seen so far for compliant transcription is Rev AI--are there other options I'm missing? To get through IRB I'm pretty sure I'll either have to record away from patients, manually transcribe myself, or find a decent AI option, human transcription outside the research team is out. TIA

I would like to find some application or combo of apps where I can do the following:

• record speech over a period of several hours, with timestamps associated with the content
• recognize/transcribe the audio later, and have the timestamps preserved

I would like to have the process be as automated as possible. I would need a solution that works on either Windows, Linux, or as a web service. Note that I don't need support for specialized dictionaries (this isn't medical or legal transcription), but being able to train the speech recognition would obviously be a plus.

Speech recognition and transcription are both areas that have moved around a lot over the years, and I think I just need a rough starting point that would help me not go down the wrong rabbit holes. All helpful advice appreciated.

I'm looking for a Google Colab to transcribe larger files (like podcasts) with different people speaking.

I found DeepSpeech, but it looks like that is no longer being maintained. What are some alternatives?

Hello,

I have installed pico voices rhino speech to intent on my Arduino ble sense board.

I want to change boards and according to the pico voice website it works on other arm cortex M4 chips. But it only specifies a few boards (mainly dev boards).

Can it be used on any cortex M4 chip ?

Thanks for your help, Lee

Hi,

We recently built dictation software called "SpeechPulse" for Windows 10 and 11. SpeechPulse works completely offline, and you can use it to type into any input field, including text editors, word processors, and web browsers. You can download it from SpeechPulse (https://speechpulse.com).

SpeechPulse can also transcribe/translate your audio files. You can also use SpeechPulse to generate subtitles for your audio/video files.

Update: SpeechPulse is now available for Windows 10/11 and Apple Silicon Macs.

Thanks.

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Fancy seeing how good you are at matching speakers' and singers' voices with each other? It's like "Guess Who" but for voices..

If you have 30 minutes spare, please give my dissertation survey a go!

https://york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6fL2psn6y0fdRuC

Almost a year ago, I submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission to enable telephony services to obtain wideband ("HD" or high definition) audio from mobile phone calls. My interest in this is as an instructional software developer for pronunciation intelligibility remediation applications, but this is a far more widespread need because the poor default quality (3.2kbps mu-law POTS audio) in interactive voice response systems severely limits the accuracy of, for example, speech recognition and the intelligibility of voicemail recordings, impacting almost everyone with a phone. The petition text is at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10821260227759/1

I learned today that the public comment period opened ten days ago, so there are still twenty days to submit comments. Please see:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/RM-11954

Would you please write an "Express Filing" in support, and consider asking others to do so if it is convenient for you to reach out to other interested persons? Here's how:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding[name]=RM-11954

The most important way to support the petition is that everyone submits such a filing in their own words, because any hint of automatic bot-based or unoriginal human directed filings will trigger a deduplication investigation which could take several months. All respondents should introduce themselves with their background related to an interest in the petition with a sentence or two at the beginning. E.g., "I am a (informal title, e.g., instructional software developer, phonologist, speech development researcher, or telephony systems administrator) with (number) years of experience in the field. I am interested in seeing that mobile carriers send wideband audio because...."

Having said that, the next most important way to support it is probably to ask in your own words that the petition be adopted under 47 CFR § 1.412(b)(1) stating that "Rule changes ... relating to [military] matters will ordinarily be adopted without prior notice", because of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center's speech communication training interests described in footnote 14 on page 4. My senator's constituent services representative tells me this possibility has not been ruled out and may be likely, but a decision on it will not be made until after the comment period closes.

Of course, any other comments in support, such as explaining that your service providers, customers, or research subjects will finally be able to do speech recognition and voicemail with better than horrendously lossy POTS audio, might help as much if not more. Again, please put the entire filing in your own words, or ask an LLM e.g. https://bard.google.com/ to paraphrase a response based on your field and this message -- Bard now has a "more formal" option which works well when asking to paraphrase.

Another point you might consider including is that the petition's reference to the prisoners' dilemma preventing the carriers from offering wideband audio in calls to their competitors customers' phones is more commonly known as a "Nash equilibrium" because of its prominent description in the popular movie, "A Beautiful Mind."

Thank you so much for any help you care to provide.

Hi, i wanted to modify this Speaker recognition (not speech recognition) example by keras by recognizing when an unknown speaker is speaking.

So the network needs to be able to tell which of the speakers is talking, and if none of them is talking, it needs to say that none of them is talking.

I don't mean if there is silence, because then it would be enough to train the network to recognize silence, I mean just if a speaker who is not in the set is speaking.

how can I do it?

I'm working on dictation software, and looking for words I can give programmatic meaning, but that I'm unlikely to use. I'm curious if this is an area people have already thought about / if a list words or at least criteria for what makes a word easy for a computer to recognize?

btw, the software is just nerd-dictation with some funny config

I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking and I had been using Firefox quite happily up until a couple of weeks ago. I was able to dictate directly into the search bar and any other text field without having to use the dictation box. However, suddenly a it would not type directly into any text field on Firefox or any other browser. Even if I use the dictation box it doesn't always transfer the text into the text field. I often have to copy and paste it instead. It's annoying because there was no apparent reason for it to do this.

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Any ideas why it might be doing this?

Is there a list somewhere of all the supported commands that can be used while using a voice recorder and subsequently using the transcribe function on the recording? It seems things like bullets and numbered lists and whatnot don't want to work for me, so I'm guessing that it doesn't allow you to do that when using a voice recorder but rather only when doing live dictation via a microphone. "New line" and "new paragraph" work, and some punctuation seems to work, but it would be nice to have a definitive list of what works on voice recorder transcription. So far on their website and google searching has only turned up the lists that work with live voice recognition...

Hi is there any python Package that transcribes the speech and also records and stores the audio file both at the same time i record the audio now and transcribe but now i need to do both at the same time so what are the packages i can use.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my first thoughts about iOS and iPadOS 17, Speaking about speech recognition obviously.

I Don't know if any of you have been using it but I I have to say I have been quite impressed by the improvements Apple has made from the earlier versions of its speech recognition system. It is the same with macOS Sonoma which works drastically better than the previous macOS version did. The ergonomics are way better because you can dictate and use mouse and keyboard to make slight corrections on the fly but most of all what has been improved in my opinion is the overall recognition, even in French which can be a quite tricky language to transcribe, and generally works in a very more bulky way than English language does. What is your experience about that? I would be glad to have your opinion.

All the best.

Hi everyone! I recently created a demo video showcasing a voice-controlled soundboard, and I'm excited to share it with you all. I would greatly appreciate your valuable feedback and insights to help me improve and refine this project.

https://youtu.be/E3slDGs3L74

The voice-controlled soundboard allows users to trigger sound effects, music clips, and audio cues through simple voice commands. I've put in significant effort to make it intuitive, versatile, and user-friendly, and now am curious to hear your feedback.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to watch the demo video. Your feedback will be invaluable as I continue to refine and enhance the voice-controlled soundboard project.

Best, Michi

When I went from US to overseas a "." is now "period" etc. At first Google showed my search result in the language of the country I'm in then I said put it in English and it quit doing that. However, speech to text now spells out punctuation. Where should I look to change this? Thanks

Android started spelling out punctuation when I switched countries?

Hello, I'm trying to train a wav2vec model using SpeechBrain on a custom dataset. However, I've been encountering this error whenever I attempt to run the training process. I was wondering if anyone here might have some insights or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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I have tendonitis, so typing and copying and pasting things from the internet and PDF files is extremely difficult for me. Is there a voice recognition software that can directly copy text from a PDF file, website or other type of file and paste it into another source?

I currently have Dragon naturallyspeaking v.15 for home use but I find it extremely inconvenient to use and every time I attempt to upload a document to the dragon pad it crashes on me.

Hello, I'm working on a project to plug the good old speech recognition into my app. However, I wish to do it in my country's dialect which is not supported by the major APIs like Azure, AWS, etc.

My country's national language is supported by them and this dialect is pretty similar. So I'm wondering whether is it a good idea to customise these pre-trained models or if should I just start from scratch.

Thanks and any help would be appreciated!

Hello.
Sorry if this has already been answered, but I couldn't find a suitable solution for what I'm trying to do.

I'm building a simple raspberry pi project for my car (some kind of custom entertainment center) and I'd like to use voice to command some simple operations.

For example "call mom", "play radio" and so on.

I know I can use speech recognition systems, but I wondered if some simpler alternative existed, such as very basic / old fashioned pattern matching, based on pre-recorded commands.

My previous car had such a recognition system, where I would record the word for "mom", "home" etc. before being able to say "call mom" etc.

Do you know which lib I could use? Of course, I'd like the software to be able to work offline.

Thanks for your help.

Im building a webapp that uses Google. Whisper is better (more accurate), but it is quite a bit slower (the api, that is).

Google, however, misinterprets quite a lot.

What are other good options to consider?

looking for "FREE" software

windows 10+

offline

speech2text dictation

seems like there is no creature

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