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Show HN: Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)

76 points by saharhash 5y ago

dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago
I like these projects but they all have one flaw: the "open source" part refers only to the easy frontend, not to the backend doing the heavy lifting. With time, chances of CMUSphinx succeeding are getting lower because everybody is using proprietary APIs.
- saharhash 5y ago
  That's a great idea as for the next engine to add. The plan is to have multiple ones and not only Google's Speech API.
sairamkunala 5y ago
Voice to Text via https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english I have bookmarked this a while ago. May not be open source, and does not use the internet to convert. Would work for many use cases, but wont be as good as Google's AI. works with just the browser with help of webkitSpeechRecognition built into the browser. Works on both Chrome and Safari (not Firefox).
Johnyma22 5y ago
You might also like Etherpad's implementation: https://blog.etherpad.org/2012/06/04/plugin-spotlight-speech-to-pad/ https://blog.etherpad.org/2012/06/04/plugin-spotlight-speech...
- saharhash 5y ago
  The plugin url doesn't seem to work anymore
hheikinh 5y ago
As an alternative to Google Cloud Speech check out https://www.speechly.com/ https://www.speechly.com/. A lot easier to get started with and doesn't require a credit card. Has support for all the major browsers both desktop and mobile. If you are interested in a note-taking CRM application this demo is worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcgPcMOuQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcgPcMOuQk
user_7832 5y ago
If anyone is interested, Mozilla’s Deepspeech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) is also quite a solid open source offline alternative, and runs quite well even on low-end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
- saharhash 5y ago
  Agreed, though what I was mainly missing with DeepSpeech was Speaker Diarization, which Google Speech API supports.
- trowngon 5y ago
  Deepspeech project is closed by Mozilla. Developers fired. Now they are Coqui.
  - user_7832 5y ago
    Thanks, I had no idea. Any idea why this happened? The devs don’t appear to be incompetent in any way. Do you also have any idea how Coqui currently compares to the un-maintained deepspeech?
  - simfree 5y ago
    https://coqui.ai/newsletter/05-07-2021#tts-v010-is-out https://coqui.ai/newsletter/05-07-2021#tts-v010-is-out
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76 points by saharhash 5y ago

I like these projects but they all have one flaw: the "open source" part refers only to the easy frontend, not to the backend doing the heavy lifting. With time, chances of CMUSphinx succeeding are getting lower because everybody is using proprietary APIs.

saharhash 5y ago
That's a great idea as for the next engine to add. The plan is to have multiple ones and not only Google's Speech API.

sairamkunala 5y ago

Voice to Text via https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english I have bookmarked this a while ago. May not be open source, and does not use the internet to convert. Would work for many use cases, but wont be as good as Google's AI. works with just the browser with help of webkitSpeechRecognition built into the browser. Works on both Chrome and Safari (not Firefox).

Johnyma22 5y ago

You might also like Etherpad's implementation: https://blog.etherpad.org/2012/06/04/plugin-spotlight-speech-to-pad/ https://blog.etherpad.org/2012/06/04/plugin-spotlight-speech...

saharhash 5y ago
The plugin url doesn't seem to work anymore

hheikinh 5y ago

As an alternative to Google Cloud Speech check out https://www.speechly.com/ https://www.speechly.com/. A lot easier to get started with and doesn't require a credit card. Has support for all the major browsers both desktop and mobile. If you are interested in a note-taking CRM application this demo is worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcgPcMOuQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcgPcMOuQk

user_7832 5y ago

If anyone is interested, Mozilla’s Deepspeech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) is also quite a solid open source offline alternative, and runs quite well even on low-end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.

saharhash 5y ago
Agreed, though what I was mainly missing with DeepSpeech was Speaker Diarization, which Google Speech API supports.
trowngon 5y ago
Deepspeech project is closed by Mozilla. Developers fired. Now they are Coqui.
- user_7832 5y ago
  Thanks, I had no idea. Any idea why this happened? The devs don’t appear to be incompetent in any way. Do you also have any idea how Coqui currently compares to the un-maintained deepspeech?
- simfree 5y ago
  https://coqui.ai/newsletter/05-07-2021#tts-v010-is-out https://coqui.ai/newsletter/05-07-2021#tts-v010-is-out

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