Speech to text software

I am looking for some speech to text software.

Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it and can verify it works.

Thanks,
Andy

AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.

Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it and can verify it works.

Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.

If it IS text-to-speech, I use an elderly Speakonia.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yceqk2ou

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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.

OK, for speech to text, most of these wait until a
complete phrase has been spoken, before deciding
what was said.

If you have RSI, you'll put up with that. If you're
able-bodied, not so much.

If doing dictation, the accuracy is about as good as
you would expect. My doctors have various versions of
dictation software, some of it good, and some of it
requiring constant correction. The last one I watched
my doctor dictate, he was impressed how it selected
the correct technical words, which implies he'd
seen worse. His first challenge, was finding a microphone :-)
(Normally they dictate into tablets.)

Dragon Naturally Speaking is an example of a commercial
product. Any FOSS inspired items, well, speech is hard,
and it doesn't take a lot of error correction to
throw most potential users into the weeds.

This is also the reason I no longer test OCR for optical
document scanning. I've only ever seen
a single sheet of paper, scanned and converted 100%
correct... and it was the sample sheet in the software
box (so the software knows what it's scanning when it
sees that sheet :-) ).

All this stuff is tough to do, and anyone who
succeeds at it, wants "big money". If you're that
good, you don't give it away for free. That's why
we have so many copies of Tesseract running around.

Paul

On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:08:57 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.

OK, for speech to text, most of these wait until a
complete phrase has been spoken, before deciding
what was said.

If you have RSI, you'll put up with that. If you're
able-bodied, not so much.

If doing dictation, the accuracy is about as good as
you would expect. My doctors have various versions of
dictation software, some of it good, and some of it
requiring constant correction. The last one I watched
my doctor dictate, he was impressed how it selected
the correct technical words, which implies he'd
seen worse. His first challenge, was finding a microphone :-)
(Normally they dictate into tablets.)

Dragon Naturally Speaking is an example of a commercial
product. Any FOSS inspired items, well, speech is hard,
and it doesn't take a lot of error correction to
throw most potential users into the weeds.

This is also the reason I no longer test OCR for optical
document scanning. I've only ever seen
a single sheet of paper, scanned and converted 100%
correct... and it was the sample sheet in the software
box (so the software knows what it's scanning when it
sees that sheet :-) ).

All this stuff is tough to do, and anyone who
succeeds at it, wants "big money". If you're that
good, you don't give it away for free. That's why
we have so many copies of Tesseract running around.

Paul

I found an answer.

Addon for the Chrome browser

VoiceNote II - Speech to text

And it's conversion is very impressive.

It must have a dictionary, cuz if you type a curse word, it will type s***
:-)

I love Tesseract.

I have scanned books and gotten excellent conversions.

I would imagine that scanning my handwriting would be at best 10%.

Andy

On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:21:13 PM UTC-5, AK wrote:
On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:08:57 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy

Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.

OK, for speech to text, most of these wait until a
complete phrase has been spoken, before deciding
what was said.

If you have RSI, you'll put up with that. If you're
able-bodied, not so much.

If doing dictation, the accuracy is about as good as
you would expect. My doctors have various versions of
dictation software, some of it good, and some of it
requiring constant correction. The last one I watched
my doctor dictate, he was impressed how it selected
the correct technical words, which implies he'd
seen worse. His first challenge, was finding a microphone :-)
(Normally they dictate into tablets.)

Dragon Naturally Speaking is an example of a commercial
product. Any FOSS inspired items, well, speech is hard,
and it doesn't take a lot of error correction to
throw most potential users into the weeds.

This is also the reason I no longer test OCR for optical
document scanning. I've only ever seen
a single sheet of paper, scanned and converted 100%
correct... and it was the sample sheet in the software
box (so the software knows what it's scanning when it
sees that sheet :-) ).

All this stuff is tough to do, and anyone who
succeeds at it, wants "big money". If you're that
good, you don't give it away for free. That's why
we have so many copies of Tesseract running around.

Paul

I found an answer.

Addon for the Chrome browser

VoiceNote II - Speech to text

And it's conversion is very impressive.

It must have a dictionary, cuz if you type a curse word, it will type s***
:-)

I love Tesseract.

I have scanned books and gotten excellent conversions.

I would imagine that scanning my handwriting would be at best 10%.

Andy

I frequently get this message when posting.

Email addresses detected in message

Found the following email addresses.

Do I have to manually delete those email addresses every time?

Andy

AK wrote:
On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:21:13 PM UTC-5, AK wrote:
On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:08:57 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:38:35, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am looking for some speech to text software.
Preferably shareware, but would pay if someone has actually used it
and can verify it works.
Thanks,
Andy
Windows XP
Control Panels
Speech
Click "Preview Voice" option

Now, could you stand to listen to that ?

Paul
I think when he said "speech to text" he meant the other way.
OK, for speech to text, most of these wait until a
complete phrase has been spoken, before deciding
what was said.

If you have RSI, you'll put up with that. If you're
able-bodied, not so much.

If doing dictation, the accuracy is about as good as
you would expect. My doctors have various versions of
dictation software, some of it good, and some of it
requiring constant correction. The last one I watched
my doctor dictate, he was impressed how it selected
the correct technical words, which implies he'd
seen worse. His first challenge, was finding a microphone :-)
(Normally they dictate into tablets.)

Dragon Naturally Speaking is an example of a commercial
product. Any FOSS inspired items, well, speech is hard,
and it doesn't take a lot of error correction to
throw most potential users into the weeds.

This is also the reason I no longer test OCR for optical
document scanning. I've only ever seen
a single sheet of paper, scanned and converted 100%
correct... and it was the sample sheet in the software
box (so the software knows what it's scanning when it
sees that sheet :-) ).

All this stuff is tough to do, and anyone who
succeeds at it, wants "big money". If you're that
good, you don't give it away for free. That's why
we have so many copies of Tesseract running around.

Paul
I found an answer.

Addon for the Chrome browser

VoiceNote II - Speech to text

And it's conversion is very impressive.

It must have a dictionary, cuz if you type a curse word, it will type s***
:-)

I love Tesseract.

I have scanned books and gotten excellent conversions.

I would imagine that scanning my handwriting would be at best 10%.

Andy

I frequently get this message when posting.

Email addresses detected in message

Found the following email addresses.

Do I have to manually delete those email addresses every time?

Andy

Google Groups used to partially hide the email addresses
at one time. In this sample message, you can see two email
addresses that have "..." in them, to hide precise email
addresses. I wonder why they've stopped doing that ?
Not that it matters all that much.

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...egroups.com%3E

*******

Your VoiceNote II could be using Cloud conversion for
speech, instead of local conversion. But companies don't
like to give away Cloud conversion for free, whereas
local conversion is not of as high quality and they're
willing to give away that sort of conversion. Test it
and see if any network lights are flashing as you talk.
And the lights don't flash as fast when you're not
talking.

Paul

"Paul" wrote:
AK wrote:
I frequently get this message when posting.
Email addresses detected in message
Found the following email addresses.
Do I have to manually delete those email addresses every time?

Why? What does it suggest you do?

Google Groups used to partially hide the email addresses
at one time.

It still does.

In this sample message, you can see two email
addresses that have "..." in them, to hide precise email
addresses. I wonder why they've stopped doing that ?

That's because the message was composed on Google Groups so the quoted
text contained the obfuscated ones. You'll note the "From" line in the
header is not altered, whereas it would be if you looked at the
original on GG.

On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 4:10:26 AM UTC-5, Apd wrote:
"Paul" wrote:
AK wrote:
I frequently get this message when posting.
Email addresses detected in message
Found the following email addresses.
Do I have to manually delete those email addresses every time?

Why? What does it suggest you do?

Google Groups used to partially hide the email addresses
at one time.

It still does.

In this sample message, you can see two email
addresses that have "..." in them, to hide precise email
addresses. I wonder why they've stopped doing that ?

That's because the message was composed on Google Groups so the quoted
text contained the obfuscated ones. You'll note the "From" line in the
header is not altered, whereas it would be if you looked at the
original on GG.

Google groups support said this...


L
LMcKin51- G-Suite-Product Expert
16 hr

Welcome to Google Groups Community

you should put a Space between the username and @ domain.com

I can not get rid of the popup per se.

Andy