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Speech to text

by PlayedaBlinder
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Hi Folks

Anyone know of a good download (preferably free!!!!!!!) for speech to text software? My trusty old laptop doesn't have it.

Mike
#speech #text
  • Profile picture of the author Ollie Pilgrim
    Hi Mike,


    Google Chrome browser is capable of translating speech to text using Google Translate. I've never used the service personally so I cant say how good it is but it is a free option.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I use Dragon Naturally Speaking but it is not free.
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    • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      I use Dragon Naturally Speaking but it is not free.
      ^^This is great. But it costs a lot. Then again it's worth that much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    There a few paid services you can send audio files.
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    Windows has this ability native.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Like Laurence metnioned: Dragon Naturally Speaking. It beats anything else I've tried - been using it for years, but it is expensive. Well worth the price.

    Meanwhile, get on their mailing list (Nuance is the manufacturer.), because several times a year, they put it on sale - most times at half price! Their premium version lets you load it onto several computers too.

    They just updated to version 12.5. Version 12 was good, some of the earlier version had issues like not being able to take dictation from an mp3 file you recorded on and external recorder or an audio note recorder like your smart phone. Version 12 handled that fine.

    With that feature, it is easy to write down ideas, or even write entire articles while you are driving you car, and turn them into a document later.

    Like Ollie, I have not tried the Google Chrome thing to see if it works. It's free, might be worth a test.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim3
    How old is your laptop - XP?
    Vista and 7 have a text to speech installed as standard. The earlier versions were not that good, but MS seem to have updated it, works fine.
    XP versions have it but not all, you may be able to install the drivers though from MS
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      If you have an iphone or ipod or ipad, there is Dragon Dictate app which is FREE and it works without any pre programming.

      The accuracy is shocking.
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  • Profile picture of the author zeroaffiliate
    Why not try outsource to fiverr to have it transcript for you. I have yet to really use dragon service but i don't think any software can be 100% accurate in translating speech to text.
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  • Profile picture of the author twister85
    I prefer Coolspeech For my text to speech works. Really handy and Cool voices.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley Walker
    Have you consider hiring someone to convert your video or mp3 to a text. You can find many virtual assistant in ODesk to do this kind of trivial task. Hire someone with an experience to transcript audio file to text file. Give them a test before hiring, check them trough and assess the accuracy. Happy headhunting.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Free: it's built into Windows from XP onwards (search Control Panel for Speech Recognition). It comes with a tutorial and a series of screens that you read to help train it.

    Paid for: Dragon Naturally Speaking. Just make sure that you get the version that works with your version of the operating system - the last one I bought was locked to XP and refused to work with Windows 7. Which was deliberately programmed in by the manufacturers and left a nasty feeling for me. But, that aside, it works well.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    There was a guy here who does 10 minute audio for $3.50. Search for the thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Spend a few dollars and go with the Dragon software, it will shave your article time in half.
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  • Profile picture of the author cferfland247
    Check out this one How to use Chrome's speech-to-text | How To - CNET
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  • Profile picture of the author Rod Cortez
    Originally Posted by PlayedaBlinder View Post

    Hi Folks

    Anyone know of a good download (preferably free!!!!!!!) for speech to text software? My trusty old laptop doesn't have it.

    Mike
    What operating system do you have? If you're on Windows 8, 7, Vista, they have this feature built in.

    I've tested a lot of speech to text programs and I finally settled on Dragon Naturally Speaking. The latest home edition is only $49.99 at Tiger Direct. You can also find older versions on the cheap on eBay.

    As Jill already mentioned, if you have a smart phone, chances are you can download the free DNS app and use it. I have also found it pretty accurate.

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  • Profile picture of the author HelpingYouBeAnExpert
    The new Mac os now has it built in and it's very very good!
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  • Profile picture of the author skyzer
    Recommended Paid Software: Dragon Naturally Speaking.

    Recommended Free Software: Whatever is the OS that you are using right now on your computer or laptop usually has a built in option for you to translate your speech to text. Simply put, modern OS's nowadays have their own voice recognition software. But there's always an issue with their quality as expected always from free things.
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