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Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by remram on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:01PM (#24200303)
"MP3 to Text" seems very inaccurate since you can only upload video files. In fact uploading an .mp3 file shows "File type not supported".

edit: I get it, OP just keeps submitting his service with different descriptions until one gets some upvotes. Only took 25 tries to get 30 points. Shameful.

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by arteez on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:09PM (#24200435)
Just goes to show that people upvote anything if it sounds cool, and don't bother checking it out.
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by sabbakeynejad on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:22PM (#24203860)
We add new major product features every few week and think its important to see if people like it!
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by fredley on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:59AM (#24200274)
MP3 to text? Why does it ask me to upload a video?
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by sabbakeynejad on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:17PM (#24203819)
Opps, thats a UX problem. Will get this fixed now.
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by rock_artist on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:47AM (#24200095)
Very cool but how do I know what languages supported? It says "VEED is able to recognise and transcribe languages from all over the world - English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and many more".

From my experience with NLP/AST the tricky part is models for some less common languages.

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by sabbakeynejad on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:18PM (#24203826)
This is true, we support over 55 languages. The more popular the language the better the results.
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by rubyron on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:56AM (#24200230)
What’s the pricing? What speech-to-text engine is being used?

Clicking on the Sign Up button on iOS Safari does nothing.

Clicking on the Get Started button takes me to an Upload Video form - not what I expected from a mp3-to-text service.

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by remram on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:07PM (#24200397)
Apparently you're limited to 50 MB for free, which is pretty short if you can't send audio files but only videos.
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by mxuribe on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:31AM (#24199899)
This would have been genius in the napster days of yore; why seek out and download mp3s yourself? Just sit back and have people send stuff to you! I kid, i kid! ;-)
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by remram on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:55AM (#24200218)
Is there even a good offline version of this? There are some opensource tools for speed-to-text but what about batch processing of audio files?
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by synesthesiam on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:06PM (#24200382)
You may be interested in voice2json for offline batch processing: https://voice2json.org

Here's an example using GNU parallel: http://voice2json.org/recipes.html#parallel-wav-recognition

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by remram on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:08PM (#24200415)
Wow this is exactly what I had in mind for "opensource tools for speed-to-text". I didn't know it did this too. Thanks a lot!
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by yorwba on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:09PM (#24200438)
> voice2json is optimized for:

> Sets of voice commands that are described well by a grammar

> Commands with uncommon words or pronunciations

> Commands or intents that can vary at runtime

Doesn't sound like what you'd want for a generic transcription service.

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by synesthesiam on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:18PM (#24201387)
It supports open-ended transcription too: https://voice2json.org/commands.html#open-transcription

Users have reported good accuracy with the English Deepspeech profile: https://github.com/synesthesiam/voice2json-profiles

Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by Lemmih on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:41AM (#24200014)
How does this work? And is it more accurate than YouTube's automatic captions?
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by asah on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:57AM (#24200248)
Multi speaker?
Re:Show HN: MP3 to Text by 236dev on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:01PM (#24200305)
reminds me of descript