Anyone knows how this compare to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
Google is orders of magnitudes better on trendy words and phrases etc. Just try Siri vs Google.
Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
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#32Google's speech-to-text is powerful, but I'd be pretty skeptical about tying a project to it given how services like Maps have been handled recently. There are companies like Mozilla trying to build more open solutions, but to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) any pre-trained services Mozilla offers will also still involve you connecting to their servers. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I just ca…
It is also extremely expensive ($1.44/hr of audio) which really limits its potential. I looked at it for a project but it just didn't make sense.
I can't imagine many use cases where $1.44/hr is a significant cost.
If you sell audiobooks, then a one off cost of a few dollars to convert the book to audio form is tiny compared to the authorship of the text.
If you are doing something like turn by turn navigation, clips are typically only a few seconds long, so very cheap, and again, many of your users will be needing the same clip, so no need to pay for it twice.
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#33A friend is working for a newspaper. He records interviews. We tried all the software we could find to turn the recording (Dutch) into text but there is nothing that gives a helpful result. I know that a recording-to-text is different than speech-to-text but even when I use OK Google most of the time the results are horrible. So after all those years I am still a little skeptical.
Dutch isn't yet a language that the new machine learning models are used for because there isn't enough dutch training data, nor enough people who speak dutch to make the engineering and compute investment worthwhile.
Just wait - it'll come in a few years though.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mozilla’s DeepSpeech is available as an offline pre-trained system for English. The quality is far below Google’s speech API as the model is somewhat out of date and more importantly the training data set is much smaller and less general. The best pretrained speech to text model I’ve seen is from Baidu’s DeepSpeech 2 repository. They provide pretrained models for English and Chinese based on their internal data. The…
Any links to Baidu's DeepSpeech 2 pretrained model? I'm likely looking right past it, spent the past few days playing around with Mozilla DeepSpeech and their pretrained model, building a simple little API and webpags to feed it files: https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/DeepSpeech_Frontend I really want to put DeepSpeech 2 with Baidu's model up against Mozilla's model and see which is better, seems like it could b…
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#35Google's speech-to-text is powerful, but I'd be pretty skeptical about tying a project to it given how services like Maps have been handled recently. There are companies like Mozilla trying to build more open solutions, but to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) any pre-trained services Mozilla offers will also still involve you connecting to their servers. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I just ca…
Not sure why it would be a worthwhile endeavor to roll up your own text to speech system when basically all major cloud providers give that service for a price, unless this cost would make a significant fraction of your total costs. Unless that's the case, why not use this service until the day comes when Google might raise prices and then we could decide what to do about it? It's still an API call, afterall.
While I agree that Google maps price increase was a bit much, I'm sure Google realizes they can't offer services to businesses and viably keep doing this kind of 180 too ofren, especially if they offer it as part of their Google cloud. So it's not very likely they will pull the rug under this service again.
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#36I really want a free software implementation of Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text that runs on local computer without network.
I don't trust those cloud-based solutions.
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#37Re: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
#38Google's speech-to-text is powerful, but I'd be pretty skeptical about tying a project to it given how services like Maps have been handled recently. There are companies like Mozilla trying to build more open solutions, but to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) any pre-trained services Mozilla offers will also still involve you connecting to their servers. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I just ca…
Not sure why it would be a worthwhile endeavor to roll up your own text to speech system when basically all major cloud providers give that service for a price, unless this cost would make a significant fraction of your total costs. Unless that's the case, why not use this service until the day comes when Google might raise prices and then we could decide what to do about it? It's still an API call, afterall. While I…
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The downloads total a bit above 2GB for Mozilla Deepspeech 0.1.1, but besides that DeepSpeech is quick to set up and pretty performant on my i5-4200U (half realtime transcription) and its even better on my Ryzen box. Going to do some GPU testing tomorrow, need to clean up the docs on the little web frontend/API I've been trying to get ready for production use: https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/DeepSpeech_Frontend
I was more interested in 'astonishingly good' Baidu solution. will that install chinese spyware thou? sorry, very cautious about Baidu et al.
Not sure, but the results and info OP linked to are quite interesting: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/DeepSpeech#released-models