Thanks for the comments. Still looking...sk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sam Noble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s@mnoble.net">s@mnoble.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:54:59AM -0600, Steve Katona wrote:<br>
> Here's what I want to do and wonder if there is software that will do it or<br>
> if there is a better way than I have in mind? A friend has posted about 115<br>
> YouTube talks that run from 5 minutes to near 30. A selection of them will<br>
> make a book that we think will sell but more importantly would be important<br>
> to be available. I transcribed one by starting and stopping the video and<br>
> typing (at my usual 25 wpm speed). This is tedious and time consuming.<br>
> Hiring someone to transcribe is a possibility.<br>
><br>
> My question is does anyone know of voice to text software that can listen<br>
> to the YouTube being played and put that into a text file that I can<br>
> manipulate with OO or LibreOffice? Is there a better way?<br>
<br>
</div>The only significant player I know of in free (as-in:) speech<br>
recognition, is sphinx/pocketsphinx (<a href="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/</a>)<br>
<br>
Unfortunately it's not especially usable.<br>
<br>
This looks like the closest thing to what you're trying to do:<br>
<a href="https://live.gnome.org/Gaupol/SpeechRecognition" target="_blank">https://live.gnome.org/Gaupol/SpeechRecognition</a> A nice gui subtitle<br>
editor with built in pocketsphinx.<br>
<br>
But I futzed with it for a while and haven't yet managed to get a<br>
working version of the gstreamer plugins for pocketsphinx going.<br>
Plus I have no idea how it well it would work if you did get it built or<br>
found some working binaries. Sphinx is pretty good at reading back "GO<br>
FORWARD 10 METERS" but I've never really seen it in action on live<br>
conversational speech.<br>
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