Speech to Text

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Fellow Users,

Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text
software for the fedora system

[Frank Cox]

On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:26:13 -0500
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text
> software for the fedora system

I can pretty much guarantee that anything you find will be a disappointment to
you.  Good text-to-speech is currently a largely unsolved problem.  Existing
software requires extensive training and is still not particularly accurate.
In most cases it's more efficient to listen to dictation and type the text
yourself.

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:38 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:26:13 -0500
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text
> > software for the fedora system
>
> I can pretty much guarantee that anything you find will be a disappointment to
> you.  Good text-to-speech is currently a largely unsolved problem.  Existing
> software requires extensive training and is still not particularly accurate.
> In most cases it's more efficient to listen to dictation and type the text
> yourself.
>
> -- 
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Frank,

Thanks for the response.  Your note is appropriate with what I am
finding.  Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text.
I would like to monitor there work and help if I can.

Greg

[Kevin Kofler]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  Your note is appropriate with what I am
> finding.  Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text.
> I would like to monitor there work and help if I can.

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php

(Note: Ignore the outdated instructions saying to get the proprietary Java
at java.sun.com, the java-1.6.0-openjdk packages which ship with Fedora
should be perfectly fine.)

Kevin Kofler

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 01:39 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.  Your note is appropriate with what I am
> > finding.  Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text.
> > I would like to monitor there work and help if I can.
>
> http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php
>
> (Note: Ignore the outdated instructions saying to get the proprietary Java
> at java.sun.com, the java-1.6.0-openjdk packages which ship with Fedora
> should be perfectly fine.)
>     Kevin Kofler

Kevin,

Thanks much, I'll check it out

Greg