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Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

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On 11/05/2020 02:08 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:58:25PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 04, 2020 12:36:51 PM Curt wrote:
>>> Maybe this open source, Java (is that still a thing?) app that runs
>>> on Linux:
>>>
>>> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/dictator/
>>
>> Yes, I believe that it is it, but maybe I saw an earlier version (although the
>> web page listed above is copyrighted something to 2006).
>>
>> One of the things that made me uncomfortable was that it was written in Java,
>> and I was concerned about the performance.  But, I never did try it.
>>
>> Looks like it is pretty much dead -- I tried to access the TWiki but was
>> denied access.
> 
> A more recent project seems to be Mozilla Foundation's DeepSpeech [1]
> 
>      "DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device)
>       speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices
>       ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers."
> 
> (Sorry for linking to Github. OTOH, they seem to have some page for
> this, but it's a Javascript-only white hole [2], so I don't know
> what's in there)
> 
> [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
> [2] https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/
> 
>   - t
> 

My impression of the CMU project(s) is that the focus is more on 
developers of speech enabled software than end-users of the application.

Initial browsing indicates DeepSpeech will likely be more appropriate.

Some links from [1] state a requirement for JavaScript but display a 
blank screen even when JavaScript has been enabled. The same is true of 
[2] itself.

I suspect "browser sniffing" as 
[https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#machinelearning:mozilla.org], pointed 
to by [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/master/SUPPORT.rst], 
explicitly states:
> 
> Your browser can't run Element
> 
> Element uses many advanced browser features, some of which are not available or experimental in your current browser.
> 
> Please install Chrome, Firefox, or Safari for the best experience.
> Use Element on mobile

My current browser is SeaMonkey 2.49.4 [cookies disabled] running on 
Debian 9. I intend to do an install of Debian 10 on another laptop in 
the next week an will install current Firefox to see if that is the only 
problem. I will also try the public machines at the local library as a 
double-check.

It may be out of date information, but 
[https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/wiki#why-cant-i-speak-directly-to-deepspeech-instead-of-first-making-an-audio-recording] 
says:
> Why can't I speak directly to DeepSpeech instead of first making an audio recording?
> 
> We are providing inference tools as a way to easily test the system, but building
> upon that is open to anyone. Having to deal with more interactive UX is out of the
> scope of the current target of those tools.
One of the links I went to explicitly referred to doing "real time" 
speech recognition [it may have been written by an application developer].

More later.
Thank you.

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Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-04 16:00 +0100
  Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-04 18:10 +0100
    Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-05 00:00 +0100
        Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-05 00:10 +0100
        Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-05 09:10 +0100
          Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-05 15:30 +0100
            Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-05 16:30 +0100
  Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-11-06 08:30 +0100
    Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-06 09:30 +0100
    Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-11-06 11:30 +0100
    Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated  laptop? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-06 13:50 +0100
    Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop? Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2020-11-06 17:40 +0100

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