Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python
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Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python
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#2Excellent post. Very interesting. I see how it works but am using Python 2.7 so based on your headline I suppose it won't work for me. This is the first real lead I've seen for integrating it easily. Pricing isn't terrible, if it goes production. Too bad there is no way to test it first for development. But we're lucky to have this at all.
The link to the VLC library is pretty handy.
Re: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python
#3Excellent post. Very interesting. I see how it works but am using Python 2.7 so based on your headline I suppose it won't work for me. This is the first real lead I've seen for integrating it easily. Pricing isn't terrible, if it goes production. Too bad there is no way to test it first for development. But we're lucky to have this at all. The link to the VLC library is pretty handy.
Most of the stuff I found was for Python 2.7! I'll edit that into the post. My focus was for finding libraries that worked with new Python code, e.g. Python 3.5 code.
All of those libraries have Python 2.7 versions. Actually for all of them you pip install the same library; for pyttsx, `pip install pyttsx` and ignore jpercent's update.
I'm not sure what you mean about pricing and testing for development. Are you referring to Google's services? They offer 50 reqs/day for voice recognition on a free developer API key (https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys). Google Translate can also be used by gTTS; it will rate limit or block you if you send too many reqs/min or per day without an appropriately registered API key, but you could play around with it for sure.
If voice recognition is important, it might be worth investigating Sphinx more and putting the time to tweak their English language model files. Synthesis is more difficult, though I think the Windows SAPI, OSX NSSS, and ESpeak on *nix are all "good enough." There are also a range of commercial libraries.
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#4It really would be amazing to be able to get voice recognition software that covers at least recognizing a small enough fraction of our language to be useful without having to reach the cloud. It is definitely a dream I hope we one day achieve, thanks for the article, will test it on my day off and play with it a bit.
Re: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python
#5Excellent post. Very interesting. I see how it works but am using Python 2.7 so based on your headline I suppose it won't work for me. This is the first real lead I've seen for integrating it easily. Pricing isn't terrible, if it goes production. Too bad there is no way to test it first for development. But we're lucky to have this at all. The link to the VLC library is pretty handy.
Most of the stuff I found was for Python 2.7! I'll edit that into the post. My focus was for finding libraries that worked with new Python code, e.g. Python 3.5 code. All of those libraries have Python 2.7 versions. Actually for all of them you pip install the same library; for pyttsx, `pip install pyttsx` and ignore jpercent's update. I'm not sure what you mean about pricing and testing for development. Are you refe…
I too thought it was Python 3 only before I read it. Maybe a better title would be "Coding Jarvis in Python in 2016" and then explaining in the first paragraph that this is Python 2 and 3 compatible, with your personal focus on 3?
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#6It really would be amazing to be able to get voice recognition software that covers at least recognizing a small enough fraction of our language to be useful without having to reach the cloud. It is definitely a dream I hope we one day achieve, thanks for the article, will test it on my day off and play with it a bit.
There are plenty of those. Voice recognition is nothing new—I remember playing around with "speakable items" back in Mac OS 7. It did well enough to recognize certain key words and phrases.
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#7They should move from Sphinx to Kaldi and from GMM to DNN acoustic models. Instant 30% improvement.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the stuff I found was for Python 2.7! I'll edit that into the post. My focus was for finding libraries that worked with new Python code, e.g. Python 3.5 code. All of those libraries have Python 2.7 versions. Actually for all of them you pip install the same library; for pyttsx, `pip install pyttsx` and ignore jpercent's update. I'm not sure what you mean about pricing and testing for development. Are you refe…
I too thought it was Python 3 only before I read it. Maybe a better title would be "Coding Jarvis in Python in 2016" and then explaining in the first paragraph that this is Python 2 and 3 compatible, with your personal focus on 3?
Thanks for the feedback; I updated the blog post.
Re: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python
#9It really would be amazing to be able to get voice recognition software that covers at least recognizing a small enough fraction of our language to be useful without having to reach the cloud. It is definitely a dream I hope we one day achieve, thanks for the article, will test it on my day off and play with it a bit.
My impression is that the super accurate stuff like Google's voice recognition and Siri are all feuled by masssssssive amounts of data. So you build up these recognition networks based off of a bunch of data sources, and get better over time, but the recognition is more based off of the data than the code.
It's the whole "Memory is a process, not a hard drive" thing: Voice recognition as it is today is a slowly evolving graph from input data. You could in theory compress the graph and have it available offline. But it would be hard to chop it up in a way that doesn't completely bust the recognition.
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#10Does this work without an internet connection (once downloaded)? If yes, How big is the downloaded footprint? I still haven't gone through the webpage carefully.