Java speech recognition software ?

Hi Software Experts.
I have 2 short questions.
1. does any one here have any knowledge of any java speech recognition software ?
2. is it true that all speech recognition software has to be trained ?
Are there some simple ones on the market that will test for 1 word and therefore not need to be trained ? Or trained a lot less ?

IBM makes Via voice, a commercial package. Almost all apps need some training, to be truely effective, as the user's speech patterns vary. I am not aware of any Sun classes for this, there may be some 3rd party classes out there.... - Bart

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What is the best speech recognition software available for a Mac? I want to be able to control my computer by voice while I lecture. I am aware of Dictate but hoping there is something better on the market.
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The problem is a matter of market. Good speech recognition software is expensive to develop, and it's a small market. Even smaller for Macs. MacSpeech has been providing speech recognition products for several years, now, and Dictate is their newest product having been licensed from Dragon. This is the best speech recognition software available on either platform.

Speech Recognition Software and Macbook

I have been told by helpful people on this site that the Macbook already has speech recognition software built into it. Is that so?
Can this be used from inside, for example, Office 2008? Is it so good that I do not have to bother to get any additional SRS software?
Leon

There is some limited speech-activated support, but only that can run pre-set actions that you define. It doesn't work at a level where you can dictate to your machine and have it transcribe what you say. For that you will need additional software such as MacSpeech's iListen or Dictate.
If the former is sufficient for you, you can use AppleScript to write the actions that you want to perform, then save the script in ~/Library/Speech/Speakable Items folder.
The file name you assign to the file is the command you need to speak to have the OS take action.

Any experience with speech recognition software to type lots of text

hallo Folks,
Anybody out there any experience on the Mac and speech recognition software?
What I need it for is to write text, no need to be able to tell the machine what to do over voice. Just want cut down on the grinding hours of typing. What works well and what not?
Love to hear.

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
There is a useful review here including a sample of the uncorrected results of dictation.
Thanks for that Roger, useful.
You won't find an open-source or free version of something as complex as dictation.
OK.

Speech Recognition Software for OS X 10.4.8?

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I know that the version of Microsoft Word I use can convert text to speech, I just need to be able to convert speech into a text document.
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Is there a free program that i can use for speech recognition that will turn what i say into text in word or even another program? thanks for the help

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Has anyone successfully used speech recognition software to add captions to photos?

I have tried using Dragon and the builtin features of Win 7, but no luck. This would be very useful for captioning large quanities of photos.
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I was able to create a speech macro that allows me to do this. I have the marco set up so that I can tell it to 1) record what I dicate, 2) post it into the current picture, 3) move to the next photo.
It is significantly faster (for me) than typing each caption.
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I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 (a speech recognition software) to navigate through Firefox, but ever since I downloaded the newest version of Firefox how can I download some older versions?

ever since I downloaded the newest version of Firefox, my Dragon NaturallySpeaking hasn't been working very well. For example, I will say "click register" or "click contact us" to select links and buttons on websites. Before this worked fine, but now it hardly works at all, which makes me think that because I am using a Dragon NaturallySpeaking program from 2007 or 2008, that it just doesn't know how to handle a program like Mozilla Firefox six that was written after its time. Or maybe it's the operating system? I was running an older version of Mozilla on Windows XP and now I am on Microsoft's seven.
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This article has the steps to resolve this annoying problem: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Websites%20or%20add-ons%20incorrectly%20report%20incompatible%20browser Websites or add-ons incorrectly report incompatible browser | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help]

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I work with final cut pro on a daily basis and have repetitive stress injuries on my hands/wrists from years of keyboard and mouse use. I was wondering if there is any way to use hands-free speech recognition software with a graphical program like fcp? Any other suggestions would be most welcome as well...
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there is any way to use hands-free speech recognition
software with a graphical program like fcp?
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Speech Recognition Not Working. Why?

I have a 6-month old Macbook (OSX 10.5.5), and I want to try out the built in speech recognition software. For some reason, it won't accept any input, no matter the configuration I put it in. When I click calibrate, it's slow to open, and no matter what I do with the slider, it won't recognize my commands. I've tried it in a new account, but without success. It appears to be system-wide. Also, there are no items in the speakable items folder, and a feedback box does not appear on the desktop. Any ideas?

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1)
Have you got any items in Address Book that are marked as "Company" but have no company name in them? This is an old problem that was supposed to have been fixed with Leopard, but I've heard people complaining about it occasionally since. If there are, try going through them and putting in the company names, then log out and back in again.
2)
Try deleting the preference files
com.apple.speech.recognition.recognizer.prefs.plist
com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs.plist
com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist
all in ~/Library/Preferences/
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If that doesn't do the trick, you may have to reinstall the OS.
Sorry!
Archie

Null pointer when trying to initialise speech recognition

Hi all,
I am attempting to utilise the JSAPI for a project for display at my Uni that utilises freeTTS and also some Java speech recognition. Through the tutorials online (such as the Hello World) I have built my speech recognizer but as I try to allocate() for the speech recogniser the program gives me a null pointer.
The grammar file that I load into the file reader exists and I do not get a file not found exception. Can anyone see a blindingly obvious error that I am missing?
Code below. The rec.allocate() (third line after the try... is where i am getting my null pointer from.
Cheers
Mark
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Hi dheeraj_chd,
I never got a reply to this so to move forward I actually incorporated the Sphinx4 speech recognition program into my project. I do not know if this is any help to you but I got it up and running OK with it.
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/
I hope this helps. It does dramatically increase the size of the application you are writing but at least it works!
Cheers
Mark

Recommendations for Medical/Scientific Speech Recognition

I was not sure which forum would be most appropriate for this, but does anyone have experience with Mac Speech recognition in the biomedical area? I have been using Dragon Dictate on a PC to dictate clinic notes. This was a godsend, since the vocabulary is complex and hard to type, especially when really tired. The medical vocabulary actually did better on obscure terminology (it got "pinguecula" but has trouble with "cane"). It seems that Dragon on Mac is defunct and I see mixed reviews of ViaVoice and iListen. Everyone would be happier if they didn't have to read my terrible handwriting, so any help here would be appreciated. thanks, -robin colgrove

Hi Robert,
I too am looking for speech recognition software. I searched the Apple Forums and of course found references to:
ViaVoice: http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice/osx/
iListen : http://www.macspeech.com/products/ilisten/
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b users
of the above software. And ViaVoice, developed by IBM, but now distributed by Scansoft, of Dragon NaturallySpeaking fame, doesn't appear to have been updated since at least 2003, and doesn't appear to be Tiger-compatible, or at least that's what I made from the website and the date of the last downloadable mac update.
Also I watched a recent vidcast interview with David Pogue, author of Tiger the Missing Manual et al, where he said he uses NaturallySpeaking (available only for PCs) to dictate the text in his (mac and pc) books. Ouch! You'd think that if the Mac speech recognition products were equally good, he'd be using one of them instead?
Finally, Rebecca Freed, PCWorld's 'Mac Skeptic' columnist, posted this review in Dec 2004: Talk Back to Your Mac, which ends:
"I would need a compelling reason--such as a hand injury or a professional need to dictate while doing something else--to spend more than $100 to purchase either one."
best of luck and post what you find out,
...ben
PS. If you go with
b iListen
be sure and get a package with a microphone, as they have very specific requirements for supported microphones.

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Hi. I used to use my iBook's Speech recognition software all the time, but can't seem to get my Macbook's to work. Any thoughts?
I am familiar with it and have got it to work in the past on my old laptops. I also use Text to Speech - I'm not sure why this doesn't work.

Without knowing the specifics of your problem it's hard to really suggest anything. Have you adjusted your settings correctly in System Preferences/Speech, and while in Finder have you clicked on 'Help' in the top menu? If you enter 'Speech Recognition' in the Help searchbox it will provide you with a lot of different trouble shooting tasks/hints.

Speech recoginition software

Hi,
Does, in the Linux world, exist good speech recognition software (for dictating textes) capable of understanding german?
Thanks!
Nathan

voxforge collects data for building voice models since almost all the opensource ASR software come with "closed source" models or no model at all. Thousands of hours of speech are required to get a reasonable speech recognition, so the job is tedious.
check that, however:
http://www.voxforge.org/home/news/news/ … orge-audio

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