I have a serious worry and problem as I am working with voice over narration (text to speech) and have used a site called VoiceGenerator.io, where I have used a specific female voice called:
Google UK English Female
Just a couple of days ago, I noticed to my utmost sadness, that this voice has changed to a different (horrific low quality voice).
The voice I used was crystal clear, elegant British lady voice.
I cannot understand this any other way, than Google has updated or changed this particular voice because on other free text to speech sites it is the same horrific too.
My simple question is: how can I get back the previous voice? Why was it changed?
How can I obtain the previous voice, no matter what means or costs? Hopefully for free of course as the site I use is free.
Highly appreciate any help regarding this very serious problem, as I need the exact voice to be able to continue my work.
Thanks in advance!
Kindly go through this supported list of voice.
You can hear sample voice also from list.
https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices
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I am programming an app for research purposes. I need a quick way to perform speech recognition of very small vocabulary (as small as 5 words in the entire dictionary). I know of many speech recognition frameworks like OpenEars, ATT Watson Speech API, Dragon etc. But it requires you to invest a lot of time in reading.
Since the focus of our app is not speech recognition, we want to do it in a quick way. I know that if I have only 5 words, then I can replace them with 5 choices as well, but that is not appropriate.
Any ideas on this? Thank you.
OpenEars developer here. OpenEars has a quickstart tutorial that can get you started recognizing a small vocabulary in about 5-10 minutes: http://www.politepix.com/openears/tutorial
if you don't bother of non iOS, then Voxforge can be a good starting point.
http://www.voxforge.org/home/downloads
I also get many help from this site with HTK when I wrote thesis.
this web site contains training procedure step by step which will be good for you.
hope this can help in small vocabulary speech recognition.
(HTK itself has sample training procedure for 10 digits)
I want to implement an speech recognition feature in my iPhone app by research i came to know about OpenEars library and i downloaded that and got a sample project along with it i got a sample project,when i run it and if i say "hello" it is returning as "you said LEFT",i tried for many word combinations but i'm getting only Left,Right,Down,Forward & etc certain set of responses. Is this a bug in openears? if so is there any way to correct this?
Any help is appreciated in advance.Thank you.
Take a look at Using OpenEars In Your App
There's a corpus.txt file in your example which allows it to recognize only:
GO
FORWARD
BACKWARD
LEFT
RIGHT
START
STOP
TURN
You can add other words or even phrases though.
I want to integrate voice detection in my iPhone app. The iPhone app allow the user to search the word by using their voice. But, i don't know a single info about Voice Recognition in iPhone. Can you please suggest me any ideas,tutorials or sample code for this?
You can also use Google Chrome API to integrate voice recognition on your application, but there is a big problem : the API works only with FLAC encoded files, but this encoding isn't supported natively on iOS... :/
You can see those 2 links for more information :
http://www.albertopasca.it/whiletrue/2011/09/objective-c-use-google-speech-iphone/
http://8byte8.com/blog/2012/07/voice-recognition-ios/
EDIT :
I realized an application including voice recognition using Nuance SDK, but it's not free to use. You can register for free and get a developer key that allows you to test your application for 90-days. An application example is included, you can see the code, it's very easy to implement.
Good luck :)
The best approach will probably be to:
Record the voice on the phone
Send the recording to a server that runs the speech recognition software
Then return something to the phone to indicate what it should do
This approach is favorable as there are a number of open source voice to text softwares out there & you are not limited by computing power in the backend.
Having said that, iOS has OpenEars which is based on Pocket Sphinx. It looks promising...
Well voice recognition is not correlated with iphone. All you can do is record the voice in iphone. Once done, you can either code your one voice recognition module, or find a third party API and reuse it.
You can do google search on that.
I want to build an application where user when talks something on iphone it will convert into corresponding text.
I heard in windows platform it is possible.
Wheather this is possible in iphone ? Any API available for this ?
I used Nuance’s Dragon Speech SDK for this purpose.
Its free for developers and their SDK have a sample project for STT and TTS both.
Tried Speech to text using this SDK on iOS 9 and it works like a charm.
Here is the link.
https://developer.nuance.com/public/Help/DragonMobileSDKReference_iOS/SpeechKit_Guide/RecognizingSpeech.html
Limitations:
60 seconds recording time limit.
Recorded audio file is not accessible.
Pauses taken are detected as end of recording.
There's an app for that.
Search for "Dragon Speech".
The question has been asked a lot of times here already, this being one of these questions that received quite a few answers and good ideas.
There is no API for doing speech to text on the iPhone, but you can record the voice on the phone, send the recording to a server that runs the speech recognition software on Windows or whatever OS suits you best, then return the text results back to the phone.
It is possible on the iPhone. Pocketsphinx has been ported. For example, an app called cactus dialer uses pocketsphinx. No API has been published but its not hard to get it built. Many people have.
For full blown dictation it will be hard. You will need to make it server based like Nuance's 'dragon speech' does or accept a smaller vocabulary.
Plz, go Through my Previous question?
Voice Recognition in iPhone?
Ok Now my Current question is as below.
It seems very hard to build my own voice recognition code - in iPhone.
Is it possible to use google's voice recognition in our software,
like when user wants to search a student by voice
=>voice is recorded & searched by google
=>& it respond to my application,
ok. I understand my question is quite confusing.
However plz leave comment for me for correction.
Thanks in advance for helping me out.
Google's iPhone app does not do voice recognition on the phone, it records the audio, and then sends it to Google's servers which do the analysis. Some day Google may make webservices available to allow you to send generic clips and get back search results, but to my knowledge they do not provide anything like that at this time.
Since Google does not provide any API for their Voice Recognition the answer would seem to be no.