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> I've got the project on hold for now because I can't find a decent, non-commercial way of converting voice to text. I'd really rather not send my audio out t

> I've got the project on hold for now because I can't find a decent, non-commercial way of converting voice to text. I'd really rather not send my audio out to Amazon/Google/MS/IBM Same concern here... so my voice->text method is via android's google voice - forced to offline mode. The offline mode is surprisingly good. Re mis triggers... I also have opencv running on the same android. It only activates the voice recognition when I am actually looking directly at the android device (an old phone).

squeaky-clean 10y ago
> text method is via android's google voice - forced to offline mode. The offline mode is surprisingly good. I actually tried this at one point with a wall-mounted tablet before trying Sphinx. It is surprisingly good for offline, probably the best offline I've tried yet outside of dedicated software like Dragon. But it doesn't meet my open criteria, so I'm hoping to find something better. I'll most likely give up on the requirements of it needing to be local and open, and use Sphinx for hotword detection to send the audio out to AWS for processing. > Re mis triggers... I also have opencv running on the same android. It only activates the voice recognition when I am actually looking directly at the android device (an old phone). That's an awesome idea :) I haven't gotten around to playing with anything vision based yet. But I've thought of 'simple' projects like that, which would add a lot to the perceived intelligence. Figuring out the number of people in a room would be another useful idea I think. The AI could enter a guest mode when there is more than 1 person in the room, or when it detects faces that aren't mine, or something similar.
- canada_dry 10y ago
  > doesn't meet my open criteria With the leaps and bounds being made in ml these days it can't be long before magnitudes better open source voice recognition becomes available. I gave Sphinx a try but it was horribly disappointing. For me, the combination of google voice (offline) and Ivona voice (Amy) is pretty damn good for my android/python/arduino based home AI.
detaro 10y ago
Sounds interesting, do you have a writeup or some other details somewhere? (How do you force android voice recognition to work offline? Just block the phone from the internet?)

squeaky-clean 10y ago

> text method is via android's google voice - forced to offline mode. The offline mode is surprisingly good. I actually tried this at one point with a wall-mounted tablet before trying Sphinx. It is surprisingly good for offline, probably the best offline I've tried yet outside of dedicated software like Dragon. But it doesn't meet my open criteria, so I'm hoping to find something better. I'll most likely give up on the requirements of it needing to be local and open, and use Sphinx for hotword detection to send the audio out to AWS for processing. > Re mis triggers... I also have opencv running on the same android. It only activates the voice recognition when I am actually looking directly at the android device (an old phone). That's an awesome idea :) I haven't gotten around to playing with anything vision based yet. But I've thought of 'simple' projects like that, which would add a lot to the perceived intelligence. Figuring out the number of people in a room would be another useful idea I think. The AI could enter a guest mode when there is more than 1 person in the room, or when it detects faces that aren't mine, or something similar.

canada_dry 10y ago
> doesn't meet my open criteria With the leaps and bounds being made in ml these days it can't be long before magnitudes better open source voice recognition becomes available. I gave Sphinx a try but it was horribly disappointing. For me, the combination of google voice (offline) and Ivona voice (Amy) is pretty damn good for my android/python/arduino based home AI.

detaro 10y ago

Sounds interesting, do you have a writeup or some other details somewhere? (How do you force android voice recognition to work offline? Just block the phone from the internet?)