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I'm looking for a speaker independent program (commercial or free) that would enable me to transcribe MP3 files containing speech recordings (especially podcasts) to text. I wanted to try Dragon Naturally Speaking, but it seems like it only supports transcribing my own speech recordings. So what are the alternatives?
pako
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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Dragon Naturally Speaking will import mp3 files and try to transcribe them. It prefers to tune its voice recognition to the individual speaker, but does a fair job without tuning. It would probably work best if your podcast speakers sound like Tom Brokaw.
moioci
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
Reputation: 444
2I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking, but it did a terrible job for podcasts with unknown speakers. It only worked fairly well with my own voice after training the program. – pako – 2010-10-15T17:06:30.600
1Can it also import other audio files and transcribe them? – Larry Morries – 2011-10-12T08:00:52.297
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One possible solution would be to upload your video to Youtube, and try the automatic captions that you can enable...it is not too accurate yet, but you can download the captions file and edit it yourself, if that helps...as for copyright/piracy issues for the song, you could make the video private on your profile, if that's even possible?
studiohack
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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1@studioback: Is this method by Youtube only applied to one's own video, not those uploaded by others? – Tim – 2011-06-09T17:39:25.683
1@Tim: it is for both, actually. – studiohack – 2011-06-09T23:02:33.393
1@studiohack: For those videos uploaded by others, how to do that? I mean, without downloading and uploading as my own videos? – Tim – 2011-06-09T23:38:04.637
1On most videos, there is a CC icon in the bottom, click it and then automatic transcription... – studiohack – 2011-06-09T23:39:00.543
Thanks! On most videos I have seen, there is no CC icon. Do you know what kinds of videos have it and what don't? I only refer to English speaking videos. – Tim – 2011-06-09T23:56:31.103
I've noticed that @Tim, but don't know why that is... – studiohack – 2011-06-10T00:05:52.167
3Related Question: How Use Google's YouTube Speech Recognition without uploading videos to YouTube? No answers yet; just asked it 10 minutes ago. – 287352 – 2014-03-29T00:21:49.517
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I would warn against trying Dragon Naturally Speaking--I wrote some scripts on my jailbroken iphone to copy/convert all the voicemail files from my phone to a folder on my PC and had the Dragon Naturally Speaking transcription service run against them.
The result of running the transcription against files with different speakers was absolutely unusable. I've tried some of the open source alternatives but speaker-independent voice recognition still seems limited to very small dictionaries.
nvuono
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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I'm using http://www.voicebase.com with podcast and videos on english and it works very well. It's free for 50 audio hours.
You can download audio transcription on rtf, srt or pdf.
You can download machine transcriptions about 10-15 minutes after you upload, and sometimes, early.
Juan Antonio Tubío
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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Open Source: CMU Sphinx
Shareware: http://www.e-speaking.com/ (Windows)
Commercial: Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Windows)
You could also try this method if you were trying with osx which can be done using audacity and soundflower
You could also find some relevant links for opensource another shareware worth to try was voxcribecc
If you are an .net programmer you could use this method to make your own kit
BlueBerry - Vignesh4303
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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Podzinger would be a great solution, but I'm not sure that ramp (the new name for the company that used to be EveryZing, who produced Podzinger) offers the service for free anymore...
Zach
Posted 2010-04-06T10:44:33.093
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Comment by Avi: I don't believe that's possible - speaker independent – Ivo Flipse – 2010-04-06T11:06:25.537
what operating system? – studiohack – 2010-04-06T18:42:40.667
Windows or Linux. – pako – 2010-10-15T17:05:41.007