Speech to Text program?

[Nanor]

I was curious did any of you know of a program that converts Speech to Text? I'd be very greatful if you could link me to one (Rep!). Also, can you make sure it works with Open Office? Thanks!

 

[PsiSoldier]

I'll look for some.

I can find plenty of text to speech programs, but most speech to text programs are pay-to-use or not very good =/

 

[Ronin Storm]

You could try Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's not free, of course, but I believe it will plug into all sorts of Windows-based apps.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

We used to have a speech-to-text program that worked with Lotus Smartsuite for our very very old PC. It wasn't terribly great, but we had quite a laugh with it. Maybe Lotus Smartsuite has it built in? I do remember there was a lengthy setup process where the PC had to 'remember' your speech. Very clunky.

 

[thatbloke]

This just sounds like lazyness to me

 

[PsiSoldier]

Lazy like copy & paste? Lazy like the auto-fill thing you get for forms?

The new world is all about doing nothing .

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

I wasn't able to find any free programs, but there are some out there. Besides the program Ronin Storm linked, I found this. No idea how well it works though.

 

[Nanor]

AH, so basically you have to pay for them all?

Ah well..

 

[Ronin Storm]

You're looking at a product that people know they can sell. Imagine anyone who has trouble typing -- upper body or back disabilities, for example. They'll all find this sort of product invaluable. I don't imagine the code for this sort of product is at all easy either...!

 

[Gopha]

What about the one that comes with windows?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Gopha, which one's that? (Honest question!)

 

[Gopha]

I saw somewhere once that in one of the microsoft packages aswell as having Text to speech there was speech to text, but im not sure.

 

[PsiSoldier]

MS only has the text to speech one... If you ask it to say Wii, it pronounces it "wee-eye" ^_^.

 

[lt.kirby]

hehe ... i got a some software that allows me to do that on me laptop... but i cant rember whats its called

the only thing bad about these thing is you have to sit there talking your self lol for hours reading out of a dictsionary

 

[PsiSoldier]

Why out of a dictionary?

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

I think Windows XP has speech recognition built into it. Check for the "Speech" icon in the Control Panel. It had a tab for Speech Recognition for me.

 

[PsiSoldier]

I think that's just speech recognition, not speech to text =/.

 

[waterproofbob]

Go to ur school, who depending on how good ur IT dept. are will have all spangly betas for every microsoft product. now i can't remember wat its called but i was playing around with new uber shiny speech to text in my old work. Might be worth asking them if they have anything of the sort.

again where it helps to be friendly avec les techies.

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

But I had to configure it to use Speech in Microsoft Word 2003 though