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

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On 11/06/2020 01:25 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well
>> because typing interrupts my train of thought.
>>
>> Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking
>> was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but
>> not recently.
>>
>> Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that
>> do NOT require proprietary software nor internet connectivity? My
>> internet searching turned up primarily old material or tool-set packages
>> packages aimed at programmers creating their own packages.
>>
>> Comments or suggestions?
> 
> Again one of these topics, where people post about software they do not
> actually use.
> 
> Let me comment here my impressions. I studied speech processing and wrote my
> thesis on dialog systems in 2007. Until about 2005 there were still some
> open source tools like ViaVoice by IBM. Basically all of this was dropped
> by 2010 - no idea why - might be something related to Google/Amazon, costs,
> patents or whatever else.
> 
> I have not heard or seen any useful Linux tool - I mean not something like
> Alexa that would send the audio recorded on the device to NSA for
> processing.
> One of the problems is surely the complexity and hardware requirements to
> run such tool (I mean a dialog engine like Alexa).
> 
> However I do not understand why the linux community does not have a usable
> STT application as even 10+y ago there were usable tools for windows.
> And here we come to the original question. I have seen and tested some of
> the windows tools 10+y ago. They implement some type of learning, adapting
> themselves to the way you speak etc. In 2-3 months period the success rate
> goes to 95-98%. Price back then was affordable - AFAIR 200-400 US
> My advise, if you need such tool - look for commercial applications and
> forget the linux crap. I am willing to convince myself in the opposite, but
> looking what happens on the linux scene ... I've lost faith
> 

I abandoned proprietary software when Windows XP Pro SP3 was current.
Vendors think the user should only be interested in problems for which 
they have a $olution.

I have an absolute requirement that any software I acquire run under 
Linux - preferably Debian.

One focus of DeepSpeech seems to be aimed in my direction. It may not be 
as much of an "out of the box" solution as I would prefer. But it seems 
close enough to merit more investigation.

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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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