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On Voice Coding

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Post by daanzu »

qixxiq wrote: post #23

It's still surprising to see Dragon Speech Recognition as the recommended (and only) choice here. Is anyone working on decent speech recognition for Mac/Linux or know good resources for that? The ideal output is a stream of what could have been said, as well as some alternatives, each with a confidence. Every alternative I've tried has not been as effective as the version of Dragon I used from 2011. I think the focus…

If you are willing to do some training, you can get tremendously improved results, in my experience. For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the normal "training" for Dragon still resulted in very poor accuracy. However, apparently their training is quite limited, because once I developed Kaldi Active Grammar [1], and did my own direct training, the results were fantastic in comparison, with orders of magnitude better accuracy. The personalized training is still pretty new and raw, and it needs a lot of setup to do the training itself currently.

[1] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar

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Post by PaulRobinson »

rijoja wrote: post #137
PaulRobinson wrote: post #16

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I suspect this setup would not be ideal as background noise getting worse would be annoying for all concerned and even more challenging than an open plan office already is, and your colleagues might not appreciate this unless you're already surrounded by people talking all day (e.g. support or sales teams on calls). That aside, in terms of worrying about your mic picking up other people's voices and the voice dictati…

Very interesting. But what about people who simply just rather use their fingers? Would you not rather type than speak if possible?

I think I personally would, but then I would rather hear some of my colleagues talking rather than using their mechanical keyboards in an open plan office.

I work mostly from home, so I'm interested in this as a programming method to see how or if it changes the way I approach it as work.

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Post by lunixbochs »

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On the homepage for Talon it lists macOS under dependencies. I've actually come across the homepage before and didn't look into it further because I thought it was Mac-only.

Hm, it does seem to be Mac-only? You mention "Windows/Linux/Mac support" in your comment; is Linux support released yet?

Windows/Linux are in earlier beta, see the patreon posts for more info on status. There are about 20 full time users for each OS beta. I really should update the site, thanks for reminding me it's confusing.

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Post by earenndil »

lunixbochs wrote: post #129
earenndil wrote: post #127

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How about 'jug'?

Offhand that makes me suspicious of the jug gust chain. I’m not sure how often that would come up though. Maybe just in vim. One shortcut for finding words that end in phonemes I’ve already tested, is to find words with the exact same ending sound as another word in the alphabet, but with a sufficiently distinct starting phoneme.

Something to consider: replacing 'jury' with 'jug' (or some other one-syllabic phoneme) might increase overall efficiency, even if one or two combinations need a slight pause.

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Post by GordonS »

lunixbochs wrote: post #22

This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000. There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software. 1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if th…

Oh, it looks like Talon is finally available for Windows!

I've been waiting to try Talon for ages - glad I can give it a try now.

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Post by eurg »

jorgeer wrote: post #153

I had several onsets of RSI a few years back, and had to resort to voice coding as a last resort, after stretches, pauses and ergonomic everything did not do the job. It was pretty awful. But then, after having seen doctors and neurologists, and finally a physical therapist, I came across my salvation: - Exercising my hands. I very rarely see this mentioned for some reason. I exercised regularly, but only the bigger…

Counterpoint: After a promising two weeks, it did nothing for me, back to square one. OTOH a colleague of mine recommended this after having personal success.

It is frustrating that there seems to be only trial and error in all of this.

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