Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition
by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:59PM
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Is the quality so much better than CMU Sphinx that it's worth paying for it?
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Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition
by jstandard on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:39AM
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Yes. I've tried Sphinx implementations twice over the past few years. Google Cloud Speech and Nuance blew it out of the water.
It partially depends on dictionary size and the need for continuous recognition, but generally speaking there's a big divide between open source and paid services.
Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition
by mrep on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:51PM
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According to others, yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11820837
Re:Amazon Transcribe - Automatic speech recognition
by nmcfarl on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:30AM
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From personal experience we can get pretty good results on our workflow from sphinx - but the amount of time it took to get those results was massive, and spread over years. It's probably worth it for most organizations to skip that and go for a vendor.
Results from Amazon are an unknown right now, but the other vendors vary a good bit and are focused on particular kinds of audio (kinds vary by: the number of speakers, the duration of the audio, the vocabulary, language).