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You said something to your computer and it magically transformed that into text, ready to be used in your email, document, notes etc. This used to be one of the futuristic things for me back in early 2000 (before the advent of smartphones) and continued to be something I wished I had on my phone till recently.
With things like Siri and Google Now, voice recognition has reached new levels of accuracy, smartness and utility. Most of us use speech-to-text for search (Siri and Google Search) or for voice memo / notes (Evernote). There are also apps that allow you to send an email or a Whatsapp message by dictating to it.
We will look at some of the best speech to text apps that you can use on your Android smartphone/tablet.
Google Keyboard
Once you have Google Keyboard installed, there’s no point in looking further (and kind of beats the purpose of covering other voice-to-text apps). Google Keyboard replaces your default keypad with its own minimalist variant. Naturally, it also features voice dictation which is pretty accurate and corrects contextually.
One of the benefits of a voice-to-text feature on your keypad is that you can use this everywhere. There are two ways to trigger the voice-to-text: tap the microphone icon on the top-left of the keypad or tap and hold the comma (,) to get to settings where you can select Voice Input.
What’s in it:
- smart, context-aware voice-to-text conversion
- loads of customization options; learns from your voice inputs
- universal: can be used in any app that requires a keypad input
- can be used offline with the right voice data packages
Speech to Text
I have a general aversion to poorly designed interfaces even if the functions are great. Testing Speech to Text has helped me get rid of this aversion (even if by only a small amount). This app has just two purposes: convert your dictation to text and help you send the text as an SMS or Email quickly. And of the half-a-dozen apps I tested, Speech To Text had the second best processing. I am not too technical to understand why when all the apps rely on Android’s default voice-to-text engine the performance of each is so varied.
What’s in it:
- for SMS and Email only
- supports multiple languages (with their native fonts)
- very minimal without options (but that’s good in many ways)
Speech to Text/Whatsapp
There are speech-to-text apps dedicated to help you send quick messages over SMS or Whatsapp and this is one of them. I tested four more of these and Speech to Text/Whatsapp is the best one (relatively). In the general parlance of smartphone apps, you’d probably hate this app for its bad design but the way it works is cool that I couldn’t help but include this here.
It’s one-tap to record/transcribe and one-tap to send. The app listens to you and after transcription beautifully offers a list of phrases that it thinks you said. You can pick the right one. This is so much better than apps that make their own (wrong) judgments on transcriptions.
What’s in it:
- quick and easy to use
- one-tap to send message to Whatsapp contact
- occasional ads spoil the fun
- shows you a list of transcribed phrases to pick the correct one
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Voice to Text
Voice to Text is pretty much redundant in the age of Google Keyboard, Dragon etc. but for folks that would still like a simple, no-frills speech-to-text app that sends an email message based on what you spoke into the mic, this is it. On my Asus Zenfone, Voice to Text kept throwing a “client error” despite transcribing accurately and sending an email too. The app pales in comparison to others on this list but is far better than some of the apps I tested.
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What’s in it:
- can only send the transcribed text as email
- very simple to use (no options, really)
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Others:
In general, speech transcription is very useful in transcribing recorded lectures and voice notes. You have a bunch of paid apps for the former. The latter (voice notes) can be done using an app like Google Keep and the Google Keyboard. But of course, there are also apps like Evernote and ListNote that feature voice-to-text.
Another app that is known for its speech recognition (and accurate transcription) is Dragon Mobile Assistant. The voice-to-text on Dragon is excellent but it does come with a ton of other features that you may or may not need. If you’re all about using pure voice commands to interact with your phone, this is an app you should check out.
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I interview individuals and small groups of people for articles. The software I’ve read about assumes you will be transcribing your own voice. What about multiple voices on the recording?
- As ha14 pointed out above, Nuance's method for using Dragon is to 'parrot', thanks also to the link to my blog idictate.com.au where I talk about this method. Parroting is not easy, me personally I can not do it, I have a low attention span so it is not an easy way to voice-to-text multi speaker audio.Also mentioned above is Koemei who have been around for a while and are trying hard to produce an online solution to auto transcription of multiple voices. I have tried their offerings a few times over the years and it is still not close to being ready for commercial use as yet - but they are trying very hard so a site worth keeping an eye on.ha14 mentions isolating each voice which is exactly what the people at Dev-Audio are doing with their ingenious Microcone mic. They can split each speaker into a separate channel and feed that into voice recognition software. Dev-Audio.com is also worth keeping an eye on.Hope that helps.Dave Holmes
Dictate Australiadictate.com.au
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dictate.uk.com - I don't believe there are any available 'yet' .
you could try one these two options. record the interview then send that recording to a hired transcription service.or you could listen to and repeat the recording to the voice to text software in your own voice. - See the answer to a similar question at http://www.quora.com/Can-speech-recognition-software-determine-if-multiple-people-are-speaking
- read this here
http://www.nuance.fr/for-individuals/by-industry/education-solutions/transcribing-interview/index.htm
The fact is that Dragon software was not designed to transcribe multiple voices. However, thousands of Dragon customers have successfully used the software to transcribe interviews using a basic technique called 'voice writing' or 'parroting.' The key is how the interview content is delivered to Dragon.Can Dragon NaturallySpeaking Transcribe Meetings Or Interviews?
http://idictate.com.au/2011/10/how-to-transcribe-meeting-interview-with-dragon-naturallyspeaking-voice-speech-recognition-other-options/
A microphone array system from Dev-Audio (www.dev-audio.com), integrated with koemei enables hardware segmented multi-party speech recognition particularly for group meetings.
https://www.koemei.com/pricing - if you can isolate every wave then perhaps you can do what you wish.