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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by sunsu on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:16AM (#4988487)
I've spent a good bit of time trying to get CMUSphinx to transcribe audio with any amount of reasonable accuracy. I never was very successful. Resorted to using paid third party APIs.

I really wish there were better options out there. Hopefully Simon will help improve the landscape. The automatic contributions to Voxforge should help.

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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by karterk on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:28AM (#4988508)
What third party APIs do you use? And how accurate are they in transcribing long audios with a reasonable amount of noise?
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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by sunsu on Monday December 31, 2012 @11:51AM (#4989804)
I have the most experience with Nuance's NDEV API. It is not really for very long audio. I'd say < 2 minutes.
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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by graue on Monday December 31, 2012 @03:10AM (#4988760)
This, and the other comments about the poor state of open-source speech recognition, are very disappointing.

Until now, I'd assumed the voice input on Android was open source. But if so it could clearly be taken and integrated into desktop apps like this. How does it actually work? Is it a closed-source plugin? Does it send a recording of what you say to a Google API?

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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by buster on Monday December 31, 2012 @03:37AM (#4988797)
The Voice Recognition is 1) part of the Google apps (the Google Search app) which are mostly not open source and 2) send the input to google to get analyzed
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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by aw3c2 on Monday December 31, 2012 @05:46AM (#4988991)
On Android 4.0 (afaik) the voice recognition is offline! But surely still a non-free Google app. :(
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