The following list presents notable speech recognition software with a brief synopsis of characteristics.
Open Source
- CMU Sphinx — open source under a BSD-style license [3]
- Julius — BSD-style license with citation requirement [4], distributes models for Japanese.
- Kaldi — Apache license [5]
- simon — GPL; Uses Julius and the HTK, an alternative backend using PocketSphinx was developed during Google Summer of Code 2012 [6]
- iATROS-speech — Released under a GPL license. [7]
- RWTH ASR — QPL-style but non-free (due to its ban on commercial use, which is not in the QPL) license.
- Zanzibar OpenIVR - MRCPv2 Server with the Sphinx4 ASR engine and FreeTTS speech synthesizer.
Open source acoustic models and speech corpus
Macintosh
- Dragon Dictate for Mac – From Nuance Communications, renamed from MacSpeech Dictate ca. 2010.
- MacSpeech Dictate Medical – Dictation product for Intel-based Macintosh with included vocabularies for 54 medical and dental specialties. Developed by MacSpeech; acquired by Nuance Communications in 2010.
- MacSpeech Dictate Legal – Dictation product for Intel-based Macintosh with a vocabulary of legal terms. Developed by MacSpeech; acquired by Nuance Communications in 2010.
- MacSpeech Scribe – By Nuance Communications. Transcription product for automatically transcribing recorded dictation into text.
- iListen – Product from MacSpeech, developed and supported for PowerPC-based Macintosh until ca. 2009.
- Speakable items – Included with Mac OS ca. 1993 onward. Apple's speech synthesis and recognition technology is collectively called PlainTalk.
- ViaVoice – Product from IBM, developed and supported until ca. 2007.
- Voice Navigator - First voice control system for a graphical user interface, by Articulate Systems in 1989.
- Power Secretary – 1995[1] Articulate Systems product, later sold to One Stop in 1998[2] as Voice Power Pro.
Mobile Devices / Smartphones
Many cell phone handsets have basic dial-by-voice features built in. Smartphones such as iPhone or Blackberry also support this. A number of 3rd party Apps have implemented natural language speech recognition support, including:
Windows
Windows 7
Windows 7 built-in speech recognition
The Windows Speech Recognition by Microsoft is the speech recognition system that comes built into Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows Vista and Windows 7 include version 8.0 of the Microsoft speech recognition engine. Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition
Windows 7 third-party speech recognition
- Auditory Sciences[3] -- transcription software for captioning whatever someone says.
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Communications – Successor to the older DragonDictate product. Focus on dictation. 64-bit Windows support since version 10.1.
- Freesr Speech Recognition Software – Create voice interfaces for any application, window in an application, or website/webpage. Works with Windows Speech Recognition or as add-on to NaturallySpeaking.
- SpeechGear's Interact - combines speech recognition with language translation.
- Sonic Extractor from Digital Syphon – Supports 22 languages. Focus on broadcasting and telephony.
- SpeechMagic – Nuance Communications acquired Philips owned. Medical industry focus according to Frost & Sullivan. Standalone or embedded.[4][5]
- VoxCommando – VoxCommando allows control of many media programs on Vista and Windows 7.
- Tazti – A multi function software with versions for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.
Windows XP or 2000 only
- e-Speaking – a software for Windows XP that facilitates use of the Microsoft Speech API by adding ability to create commands to perform custom actions.
- Microsoft Speech API – Speech recognition functionality included as part of Microsoft Office and on Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It can also be downloaded as part of the Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows applications, but since that is aimed at developers building speech applications, the pure SDK form lacks any user interface, and thus is unsuitable for end users.
Programs for controlling a computer's screens and desktop applications with claps
Built-in Software
- Microsoft Kinect doesn't include a built-in software which allow speech-recognition of commands.
- Older generation of Nokia phones like Nokia N97 series ( before using Windows 7 mobile technology) used speech-recognition with family names from contact list and other few commands.
Interactive voice response
The following are IVR/Interactive Voice response systems:
Unix-like x86 and x86_64 Speech Transcription Software
Discontinued software
- SpeechWorks from Nuance Communications.
- Quack.com (acquired by AOL) The name has now been reused for an iPad search app.
- IBM ViaVoice – Embedded version still maintained by IBM.[8] No longer supported for versions above Windows Vista.[9] Untested above Mac OS X 10.4 or on Macintoshes with an Intel chipset.[10]
- Game Commander 2 by Mindmaker. Gaming oriented voice recognition. Voice commands can be assigned to issue keystrokes and key combinations.
See also
References
- ^ "PowerSecretary Announcement". http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Articulate+Systems+Announces+the+PowerSecretary+for+Macintosh+Product...-a017069188.
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.massmatch.org/aboutus/listserv/2010/2010-03-31.html
- ^ [2]
- ^ Philips SpeechMagic named European Technology Leader by Frost & Sullivan
- ^ http://isl.ira.uka.de/downloads/asru_hagen.ps
- ^ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=599557
- ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/embedded_viavoice/
- ^ http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5775/p/31/c/980/r_id/100023
- ^ http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4987/related/1/p/31/c/980/r_id/100023
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