Any such thing as a freeware voice-to-text program?

[Anonymous]

I just saw the website for TextRecorder at
http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Software/TextRecorder.htm Having a
utility that converts written text to MP3 audio sounds cool---but what
I REALLY need is a freeware utility that converts an MP3 voice
recording to written text.

Does such a utility exist?

 

[James]

Anonymous leapt out of the bath and screamed "EUREKA!" before typing in
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Does such a utility exist?

The only thing that comes to mind is the full price Dragon "Naturally
Speaking" which "learnt" your voice and translated this to text in MS
Word etc, but I'm not aware of any freebie program myself. Sorry.

 

[John Corliss]

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The only thing that comes to mind is the full price Dragon "Naturally
Speaking" which "learnt" your voice and translated this to text in MS
Word etc, but I'm not aware of any freebie program myself. Sorry.

James, there are other such commercial programs. But I agree, there's
nothing that I'm aware of in the freeware realm that will do what the OP
wants, and I've looked hard.

Maybe somebody else will have better luck.

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[Anonymous]

there's nothing

that I'm aware of in the freeware realm that will do what the OP wants, and
I've looked hard.

Maybe somebody else will have better luck.

Darn.
Thanks for responding---at least now I know to stop looking for a
speech-to-text utility and focus my energies on other topics!

 

[Michael Laplante]

Darn.
Thanks for responding---at least now I know to stop looking for a
speech-to-text utility and focus my energies on other topics!

Not MP3 to text but there are still versions of the old MS Dictation program
floating around. It was a speech-to-text program given away freely with an
older version of their SAPI. I can try to dig up a URL if you are
interested.

M

 

[Anonymous]

After serious thinking Michael Laplante wrote :

Not MP3 to text but there are still versions of the old MS Dictation program
floating around. It was a speech-to-text program given away freely with an
older version of their SAPI. I can try to dig up a URL if you are interested.

M

YES! PLEASE!

 

[John Corliss]

Not MP3 to text but there are still versions of the old MS Dictation program
floating around. It was a speech-to-text program given away freely with an
older version of their SAPI. I can try to dig up a URL if you are
interested.

Michael,
Are you referring to this?

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

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[John Corliss]

Michael,
Are you referring to this?

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

By the way, this old thread might be of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/lqm5m

The real address is too long, so I made this TinyURL.

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[Michael Laplante]

Try here:
http://vhypno.sourceforge.net/download_full.html


Go down to the link for Speech System from Microsoft (SAPI4) - Agents,
Engine and Recognition. This will install an older version of MS Agent on
your machine along with some demonstration technologies, one of which was
Dictation.

Alternately, try searching Google Groups for MS Dictation.

M

 

[Michael Laplante]

Found a better link:
http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/old/sdk40a.asp

It's a big download though -- 40 megs.

M

 

[Michael Laplante]

Michael,
Are you referring to this?

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

That's ver 5 of the Speech Development Kit. I don't believe that has
Dictation included. I think ver 4 was the last version that included the
dictation program.

M

 

[LordMax]

Ciao da LordMax

Here maybe you can find something:

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type...d=0&atid=0&words=Speech+to+text&Search=Search

 

[John Corliss]

That's ver 5 of the Speech Development Kit. I don't believe that has
Dictation included. I think ver 4 was the last version that included the
dictation program.

Here's a reliable download link for that version then:

http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/graphics_and_multimedia/audio/audio_tools/sapi4sdk.exe

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