I hope this opens up some new app possibilities for the Pebble Time. I believe right now they use Nuance and it's very limited to only responding to texts.
Google opens access to its speech recognition API
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Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#22This is HUGE in my opinion. Prior to this, in order to get near state-of-the-art speech recognition in your system/application you either had to have/hire expertise to build your own or pay Nuance a significant amount of money to use theirs. Nuance has always been a "big bad" company in my mind. If I recall correctly, they've sued many of their smaller competitors out of existence and only do expensive enterprise dea…
Has Google sued many of their smaller competitors out of business?
Isn't Google's strategy typically to just start offering the same services as their smaller competitors but for free and then let them starve? ... Kind of like what's probably happening here? Sounds like this is terrible news for Nuance, for example.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#23In the sign-up form they state that "Note that each audio request is limited to 2 minutes in length." Does anyone know what "audio request" is? Does it mean that it's limited to 2 minutes when doing real-time recognition, or just that longer periods will count as more "audio requests" and result in a higher bill?
Do they provide a way to send audio via WebRTC or WebSocket from a browser?
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#24So this was very, very exciting until I realized you have to be using Google Cloud Platform to sign up for the preview. Unfortunately all of my stuff is in AWS and I could move it over but I'm not going (far too much hassle to preview an API I may not end up using, ultimately).
Regardless this is still very exiting. I haven't found anything that's as good as Google's voice recognition. I only hope this ends up being cheap and accessible outside of their platform.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#25This is HUGE in my opinion. Prior to this, in order to get near state-of-the-art speech recognition in your system/application you either had to have/hire expertise to build your own or pay Nuance a significant amount of money to use theirs. Nuance has always been a "big bad" company in my mind. If I recall correctly, they've sued many of their smaller competitors out of existence and only do expensive enterprise dea…
Other "state-of-the-art" speech recognition solutions already exist. For example, Microsoft has been offering it through its Project Oxford service. https://www.projectoxford.ai/speech
Also, CMUSphinx and Julius:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php
It is amazingly easy to create speech recognition without going out to any API these days.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#26In case you're not interested in having google run your speech recognition:
CMU Sphinx: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#27I came across CMU Sphnix speech recognition library ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net ) that has a BSD-style license and they just released a big update last month. It supports embedded and remote speech recognition. Could be a nice alternative for someone who may not need all of the bells and whistles and prefers to have more control rather than relying on an API which may not be free for long. Side note: if anyone…
Came in here to say this (and also include julius), but yeah cmusphinx is awesome.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#28Anybody got the api docs yet? I wonder if I can stream from chrome via webrtc.
Can't you just use the Web Speech API for that?
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.htm...
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other "state-of-the-art" speech recognition solutions already exist. For example, Microsoft has been offering it through its Project Oxford service. https://www.projectoxford.ai/speech
Also, CMUSphinx and Julius: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php It is amazingly easy to create speech recognition without going out to any API these days.
CMUSphinx is really easy to set up, and then being able to train it for one's specific domain probably beats state of the art with one-size-fits-all training.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#30Nice. But what I want is open-source speech recognition.