inline wav to text converter?

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 04, 2005 Posts: 2

I would love a way to simply read my voice messages when they are emailed to me (with the audio .wav files)

Does anyone know if there is an open source solution that I could implement on my linux-based mail server to convert the wav file into a text files as it arrive? Some kind of audio->text converter I imagine.

Posts: 30 · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

http://xvoice.sourceforge.net/

Not fully free. 39.95 for IBM's ViaVoice engine.

Let me know if you find something else, I'm interested implenting this as well. Good idea Wink

Posts: 91 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 91

ASR is pretty unreliable - I doubt you'll ever be satisifed with the results.

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 7

I too am looking into the speech to text technology. I am looking into using Sphinx-4. There are also products you can buy such as Wav To Text for windows.

Posts: 91 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 91

Dragon Naturally Speaking is one of the better engines out there - but it needs to be trained for a particular voice.

Decent engines which recognize voice without training cost $$$ Sad

Naunce (makers of Dragon, etc) have several available.