Yeah, Gord, this story I’m going to tell was actually published in the Province newspaper. The original passage (punctuation added later): Last, I used Dragon Dictate on the original recording, played on my Zoom H5 digital recorder. Then I read the same passage into my Mac with Dictation running. Then I read the passage aloud myself, using Dragon Dictate that I had already initialized to understand my voice. People who know anything about this subject will start chuckling about now, because I was dreaming.Īs a test piece, I recorded my brother talking to me about an event from our childhood to see how it would transcribe. I was hoping technology would save me hours of transcribing the hundred or so stories I will collect. I am working on a project recording and publishing stories told by seniors.
I had a pragmatic (read: selfish) reason for this research. There are also several free online voice-to-text services, which RJ Crayton dealt with on Indies Unlimited last September. Windows has an embedded program called Speech Recognition. And then Mac has Dictation Speech to Text, installed in the operating system for all Macs since Mountain Lion in 2012 or earlier. The only commercial product is Nuance’s Dragon Dictate for Mac (or NaturallySpeaking for Windows), which costs just over $100. When I started my research, I was surprised to learn that there are few players in the field. I want to know how well a computer can understand people when they just talk to it. I’m looking for a tool an author can use to write a book without typing. Just how much progress have computer systems made in understanding the human voice? I don’t mean recognizing specific commands, like the hands-free Bluetooth in your car.
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