kgoetz
I'm convinced #speechtotext #STT existed more than 5 years ago but blowed if I can find anything to do the job which isn't an " #AI agent"
Is that because the old tools went away, search engines stopped showing them, or I'm terrible at searching? Unsure, but hopefully I stumble through this fog soon.
Jan 9 at 9:33amWeb
Show threadCheesenessJan 9
@kgoetz I remember experimenting with Julius a long long time ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_(software)
Julius (software) - Wikipedia

Show threadkgoetzJan 9
@Cheeseness I hadn't encountered Julius for #SpeechRecognition before - thanks for the pointer!
Show threadthedarkniteJan 9
@kgoetz I recall a friend of mine used to use Dragon naturally speaking, but it appears as though Nuance is now owned by Microsoft
Show threadkgoetzJan 9
@thedarknite Ah Dragon, thats a name lodged in my brain from before *mutter mutter* the current millenia.
Show threadJulieJan 9
@kgoetz We certainly used it at school pre-2018 as we had a young chap who graduated in 2018 and he used it all through school.
Show threadOnno (VK6FLAB)Jan 9

@kgoetz DragonDictate was the king at one point, by Dragon Systems, available for Win98, founded in 1997.

Source: my brain, augmented by Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonDictate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking

DragonDictate - Wikipedia

Show threadOnno (VK6FLAB)Jan 9

@kgoetz just remembered.

In about 1984 I cycled from Leiden to Amsterdam to see an IBM technology roadshow, set up in a park under a dome, I used speech to text, trained by the presenter, her voice with a cold, sounded enough like mine for it to work.

I also saw a highly detailed 3D wireframe of the space shuttle that you could control with paddles, two full semi trailers required, one for power, the other the "mini" computer running the display.

Show threadOnno (VK6FLAB)Jan 9

@kgoetz apparently it's even older, 1959.

https://www.ibm.com/history/voice-recognition

Speech recognition

The world’s first speech-recognition system, capable of understanding the numbers zero through nine and six command words, was the size of a shoebox

Show threadkgoetzJan 9
@vk6flab Great link, thanks for sharing!