Hi Pete, I'm afraid that the answer's still the same: use a human. Here's an article describing the state of the art: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/spinvox_demo_day/ - the links to previous stories at the bottom provide good background. --Dave
I apologize, I should have been more clear. We will be using humans to scan the translated results. But we are looking for a system to perform the "first pass" on the audio to hopefully help the human type less.
Although the question has been raised if it's faster to have a human just transcribe the whole thing, or fix up what the computer spit out. If you have any insights on this, that would be great.
-pete
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] VoiceMail transcription From: David Knell <dave@3c.co.uk> Date: Mon, August 10, 2009 11:51 am To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Good evening Pete,
The only way to do this is, I'm afraid, to use a human. We use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to good effect.
Cheers --
Dave
> Good morning all, > > I realize this is slightly off the FS topic, but I am wondering if > anyone out there has experience with software packages designed for > the transcription of voicemails to text. I've used pocketsphinx with > FS to handle IVR menus, but now have the task of figuring out how to > convert recorded phone conversations (voicemails mostly) to text. > > This does not have to be a real-time process, I can store the audio > files and process them over time. This would need to be a software > (preferable open source) solution. ASPs like VoiceCloud would not > work for this application. > > Thanks for any help > -pete > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org -- David Knell, Director, 3C Limited T: +44 20 3298 2000 E: dave@3c.co.uk W: http://www.3c.co.uk
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