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Is there a way to do this without an internet connection and without Chrome?

• wheresvic1 9y ago
  Actually there is - there is a very nice library called pocket sphinx that does offline speech recognition. However it's not quite so easy to use - there's a python package that interfaces with it but you would need to know how to grab your own audio sample from the mic and pass it to the library. I actually managed to get a sample app running using it but I found that the error rate was around 50% and I needed to repeat myself quite a few times.
  • ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    The challenge in doing this right now without cloud services is why I've got my own assistant... Without voice, until I find a good solution.
  • CaptSpify 9y ago
    That mirrors my experience with it. I eventually gave it up because it was more infuriating than it was helpful. Not to diminish all the hard work that the Sphinx group has done, but it's only at alpha quality ATM. I think it has potential, but I don't know how fast the development is moving.
    • tabeth 9y ago
      Doesn't it suck only because it hasn't been well trained on a variety of voices?
      • CaptSpify 9y ago
        That very well could be true.
      • jjwiseman 9y ago
        Pocketsphinx is pretty far behind the state of the art in speech recognition algorithms. It also doesn't have a very large acoustic model. You can greatly improve the recognition by using a restricted language model, however.
• fao_ 9y ago
  Something that really irritates me is that strictly speaking you don't have to have an internet connection, they could have a the DNN on-device for this purpose.
• kingosticks 9y ago
  Have you had a look at https://snips.ai/ https://snips.ai/? I've been meaning to play with it for a while but not gotten around to it yet.