I attended a lecture by one of the PhD members of a group developing an extremely sophisticated speech to text algorithm. The program is available for testing on the internet using the Google Chrome browser only at this site:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
There are programs like Dragon that are very good, but this just seems beyond the pale insofar as its uncanny subtlety of recognition.
Select from over 30 languages, choose your dialect, and just click the microphone and "allow" (to allow google access to your mic), then speak while the microphone icon is flashing. Your speech will be transcribed. I tried it in French and Spanish, and my poor German and Italian, and it works incredibly well. I chose "Australia" and tried my best Aussie accent, but it didn't like my pronunciation.:mad:
As someone who has had some experience in the field of theoretical linguistics, I must say this is very close to the "holy grail" of computerized speech recognition. My specific question this evening was, "Did you accomplish this pretty much by throwing tons of computer power at the problem?" The answer was "Yes."
This program is well worth trying out for yourself, and there are huge implications for the disabled (blind, paraplegic, etc.) as well as computerized translation. It allows for various regional accents, including Indian, and it is not a trivial matter to fool it. The principle investigator (PI) gave a lecture in China, and a simultaneous machine translation into Mandarin was done, and it was reportedly excellent.
I am very excited to have found this, and I'm hoping some of our JREF blind or otherwise disabled members might find this as interesting and useful as I have.
Comments would be much appreciated.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
There are programs like Dragon that are very good, but this just seems beyond the pale insofar as its uncanny subtlety of recognition.
Select from over 30 languages, choose your dialect, and just click the microphone and "allow" (to allow google access to your mic), then speak while the microphone icon is flashing. Your speech will be transcribed. I tried it in French and Spanish, and my poor German and Italian, and it works incredibly well. I chose "Australia" and tried my best Aussie accent, but it didn't like my pronunciation.:mad:
As someone who has had some experience in the field of theoretical linguistics, I must say this is very close to the "holy grail" of computerized speech recognition. My specific question this evening was, "Did you accomplish this pretty much by throwing tons of computer power at the problem?" The answer was "Yes."
This program is well worth trying out for yourself, and there are huge implications for the disabled (blind, paraplegic, etc.) as well as computerized translation. It allows for various regional accents, including Indian, and it is not a trivial matter to fool it. The principle investigator (PI) gave a lecture in China, and a simultaneous machine translation into Mandarin was done, and it was reportedly excellent.
I am very excited to have found this, and I'm hoping some of our JREF blind or otherwise disabled members might find this as interesting and useful as I have.
Comments would be much appreciated.
via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=266250&goto=newpost
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