Speech to Text from an audio file?

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

Recently here at work, someone approached me to ask if we have a method to transcribe an AVI file. I have no clue about that. Has anyone heard of something to do that? I know XP and Vista has a text to speech function, and maybe a reverse of that is available like Dragon Dictate. The real snafu is that the app has to 'listen' to a file that it's playing.

Any ideas?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:09:08 Post Subject:

Technically I think you could just play the file on the same computer that is translating it. Just put the mic next to the speakers.

No clue how accurate it will be though.

Jynxx · Posted: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:09:58 Post Subject:

I work in the audio industry and I have never heard of any consumer products that can do that. The Dr. makes a good idea though, you could use a speech recognition program like Dragon and just put the mic next to the speaker.

Actually, now that I think about it.... I wonder if Dragon Dictate, or a similar program works off of your soundcard's "recording" input. If so, you could set it to "What you hear" if you have a Creative card, or possible "Wave/MP3" on another card, and see if it can "hear" the avi file and copy the text.