[Speex-dev] help regarding <voice to text>

Keith Kyzivat kkyzivat at sipez.com
Mon Oct 29 09:25:54 PDT 2007


Sorry Pintu, but this is not the place for this discussion.
Head over to the CMU speech page I mentioned earlier:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
and you may find what you're looking for.

On 10/29/07, Pintu Agarwal <pintu.agarwal at sasken.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Keith,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
>
> Actually I am trying to build an application in linux & C for converting a
> voice file(that is WAV) to a text message.
> This is required for one of our voice project.
>
> So just wanted to know if there is any existing application already there
> in linux to do that.
> Otherwise I have to write my own.
>
> Now to right my own "wav to text" converter I need to understand how it
> works.
> Can you tell me the logic behind it?
> Do you know any algorithm for it.
>
> Plz let me know.
>
>
> Thanks, Regards
> Pintu
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* kamaji at gmail.com [mailto:kamaji at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Keith
> Kyzivat
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:10 AM
> *To:* Pintu Agarwal
> *Cc:* speex-dev at xiph.org; Jean-Marc.Valin at usherbrooke.ca
> *Subject:* Re: [Speex-dev] help regarding <voice to text>
>
> Pintu --
>
> Speex is an audio codec that can encode and decode audio for transmission
> over network (or for storage).
> Specifically, it's called speex because it is tailored to work well at
> encoding speech at small bitrates.
>
> Speex does not do speech recognition or text to speech.
> You may wish to look at CMU's speech page: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/(look at Sphynx).
> And I'll tell you - It is much more difficult (and processor intensive) to
> to speech recognition than it is to to speech synthesis (though both are
> quite difficult).
>
> ~Keith Kyzivat
>
> On 10/26/07, Pintu Agarwal <pintu.agarwal at sasken.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> > I am need of "voice to text" converter for one of my project. I need to
> > use it on Linux OS.
> > I got "text2wave" converter but didnt find any "wave2text" equivalent.
> >
> > Then I saw "speexenc" and "speexdec" on linux.
> > It basically does encoding and decoding the the WAV file.
> >
> > Thus I wanted to know if I can use these utilities to convert a WAV file
> > to a text file.
> >
> > Please help!!!!
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Regards
> > Pintu
> >
> >
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