Google opens access to its speech recognition API • Hacker News Board

Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API

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Post by bduerst » Fri, Mar 25, 2016, 5:12 PM UTC

sologoub wrote: post #167

dragonwriter wrote: post #124

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They probably are using usage data in the free period to drive decisions on pricing.

Sure, would expect nothing less, but I'm also sure they have some sense of the range they are looking for. Such a range could help developers to establish whether their use case is viable or not. As is, the ambiguity is a deterrent from too much time investment.

Or the data determines that they have to price outside the hypothetical early-release range, and then you have people complaining that you lied.

Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API

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Post by metastew » Sun, Mar 27, 2016, 1:30 AM UTC

timbunce wrote: post #143

FWIW I'd just finished a large blog post researching ways to automate podcast transcription and subsequent NLP. It includes lots of links to relevant research, tools, and services. Also includes discussion of the pros and cons of various services (Google/MS/Nuance/IBM/Vocapia etc.) and the value of vocabulary uploads and speaker profiles. http://blog.timbunce.org/2016/03/22/semi-automated-podcast-t...

As a hard of hearing aspiring software developer, this would be a godsend for me if someone came up with a reliable automated transcription service. I'm often dismayed by the amount of valuable information locked in podcasts and non-transcribed videos and have to rely on goodwill of volunteers to give me transcripts.

Pycon did a admirable effort to live caption their talks last year but some of those transcripts never got uploaded along with the talks which is puzzling, but I suppose it could be due to lack of timecodes.

I've subbed to your blog and hopefully I can contribute whatever I can to make this work out.

Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API

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Post by ytjohn » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 12:22 AM UTC

uberi wrote: post #107

ytjohn wrote: post #36

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I first learned about CMUSphinx from the [Jasper Project]( https://jasperproject.github.io/ ). While Jasper provided an image for the Pi, I decided to go ahead and make a scripted install of CMUSphinx. I spent something like 2 frustrating days attempting to get it installed by hand in a repeatable fashion before giving up. This was 2 years ago, so maybe it's simple now, but I didn't find it "amazingly easy" back then…

In my experiences, the issues with building CMU Sphinx are mainly unspecified dependencies, undocumented version requirements, and forgetting to sacrifice the goat when the MSVC redistributable installer pops up. We've written detailed, up-to-date instructions [1] for installing CMU Sphinx, and now also provide prebuilt binaries [2]! If you're interested in not sending your audio to Google, CMU Sphinx and other libra…

Thanks for providing this. Will definitely give it a fresh look.