Android Google Speech To Text Engine

[danix803]

Android Google has a GREAT speech engine to convert speech to text... It is unbelievably accurate, considering it's FREE...
I'm trying to find a way to install this speech engine on a PC... and use it to display speech from a microphone to text on a projected screen...
I can't figure out how to get the engine software????
I can use 'BlueStacks' to run Android apps on my PC... but, I can't find a speech to text app to install...
Anybody know of any good text to speech apps or a way to download that speech to text engine from Google Android???

Thanks in advance... I appreciate any constructive help that is offered...

 

[Isadora]

I don't know anything free for PC, but if you have a Mac, this functionality is built-in and pretty accurate, too.
The only drawback is that 1) you need to be connected to the Internet, since the recorded voice is sent to a remote server to be deciphered and then transcribed 2) the system doesn't remember previous mistakes and won't improve over time.

If you want something more sophisticated, try DragonNaturally speaking. It was created for PC, but it is available as an app as well.
The PC version is installed on your machine, while the app operates remotely just like the Mac tool.
Dragon first makes you read/record a long sample to get accustomed with your voice, accent, tone, etc. and the more you use it, the more it gets accurate.

Of course you cannot really talk like in a normal conversation, e.g. do not expect to use it to transcribe what a caller might be saying to you over the phone. You can use it to type on your computer and even to navigate it thanks to voice-commands. It is very helpful for people with limited mobility that need to use the computer.

 

[danix803]

Dragon Naturally Speaking ???

Yep... I've tried DNS... doesn't work... on a list of Speech To Text sw, I rate it almost at the bottom...
Personally, I prefer the Android speech engine... It's the only one I've ever seen that can take almost anybody's voice (regardless of accent & without any coaching, that is WITHOUT reading bunches of books and/or excerpts to it)... and type what UR saying in near real time... I put them 1st because of their amazing performance , and also the amazing price (FREE)...
Second place, I would put MS's speech to text engine, but it's terribly complicated to configure... you have to read it books and/or excerpts, like DNS... also, it costs mucho dinaro, like DNS...

If I could just find a way to dl and run that android engine on a lt or dt (mucho CPUs)... then, I'd have to find an app to port it to... something like a ticker program... I'm not 100% positive, but I could probably find code somewhere for doing that... I've seen some ticker code on a few programming websites before... I think that there might be some sample code in some IDE's... for java, I think... maybe, in KDevelop (which I'm NOT comfortable with at all)...

Anyway, thanks 4 your quick response... I'm not dissin' U or anything... I do appreciate the suggestion... DNS is very likely to help someone out... when I first started using WP (Corel), years and years ago, I used DNS... it worked great... that was with windows 95... LOL... Maybe, it's come a long way since then... I'm just not willing to spend the money to find out yet... not when there is a FREE alternative that is possibly better...

 

[Isadora]

I tried DNS about 3 years ago and I didn't like it: the huge vocal training at the beginning, which anyway lead to several mistakes while typing, and the fact that you need to correct it "vocally" when it makes mistakes so that they are - indeed - recognized as such was very time consuming.

I would consider DNS as a last resort, really.

Second, text-to-speech in English are, in my opinion, more advanced that in other languages (I am an Italian native speaker), so it might be that in English they work even better than what it's in my experience.

I just read that Chrome 11 has a speech-to-text function embedded, but I am afraid it works only within the browser itself.