Re: [SoX-users] speech to .txt

[Chris A. <ro...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rafal Maszkowski <rz...@ic...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 01:33:12PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
>> On Dec 23 20:34:42, 4-...@gm... wrote:
>> >    The project I am trying to build is a speech to text system.
>> >    The system as 2 parts: first a sox filter to convert the mic input into
>> >    a binary file with a.. .txt label. The. .txt file is the in put to
>> >    another beautiful and free program called chatscript.
>> Does that mean you want the *.txt file to be a text transcript of the speech
>> that comes through the mic? SoX cannot do anything like that.
>
> I thing that SoX can make a step in that direction by implementing
> MPEG-7. But it still would be quite far away from speech recognition.
> Anyway if there are no volunteers even this step cannot be done yet.

Not sure MPEG-7 would really help - that's like saying "I have a UTF-8
codec, that means I can write a letter in Russian".

Out of interest, though, what _would_ you recommend for doing basic
software transcription of audio? There seem to be a lot of options
around, most of them either pay-for or low quality.

ChrisA