[wrong] Mozilla DeepSpeech stuff was Re: How to isolate/figure out whispers in audio clip?

[Karl Semich]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, 5:22 AM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/5/21, Karl Semich <0xloem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
> >
> > DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text
> > engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi
> 4
> > to high power GPU servers.
>
> If this thing is already well trained on English,
> needing not much more than reading maybe ten
> pages or so worth of a training book that it already
> knows and that comes with the docs, to get it 90+%
> tuned to a specific voice... it could be very useful for
> people needing handsfree dictation, thought capture,
> transcription, voice message conversion, etc
>

It's a little more complicated than that but is still quite useful and in
use, for all the things you say.

What other tools are out there in freeware to do
> speech to text?


> Did Google ever release its voicemail convertor?
>

This stuff is all over.  All the tools I've found are based on reuse of
machine learning models using associated frameworks.

People have said that service sucks due to nature
> of needing to be trained for all callers, not to just one.
>
> Doubt any of them would be able to pull out whispers
> without it being trained on whispers for which there isn't
> much public corpus, and further tuned by a specific
> whisperer which is even rarer.
>

I'm surprised this information is new to you.

I haven't successfully installed and used one of these myself, and I could
really use a dictation service as my ability to direct my hands and such
and remember auditory information deteriorates.  But you can try them on
webportals and/or notebook services like collab.

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