Free Speech to Text Software
I have been doing a lot of blogging lately. That's why I started looking for free speech to text software. At first, I looked into Dragon
NaturallySpeaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is supposed to be one of the best speech to text software is out there if not the best. So I begin looking for a free trial. After about a week of clicking on dead links that went nowhere I gave up. At this point I do not believe that there is a free trial of Dragon naturally speaking speech to text software. In fact, I read on a website that the makers of Dragon naturally speaking have decided not to do a free trial because of microphone incompatibility. For example if someone downloads the free trial and a microphone doesn't work then they won't get the benefit of the trial. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Because I love to demo software especially expensive software before I buy it so anyway that idea is done. There's no free trial to download of Dragon NaturallySpeaking software.
So of course since I'm so cheap I decided to look for a free alternative. I wanted some free speech to text software that at least I could try. I was absolutely willing to pay for the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software but I have to see the work first. I wanted to make sure that the technology was really up to par. I did watch a few videos on YouTube and they looked impressive but I wasn't convinced that it would work for me. So I started to look for free speech to text software. Now a lot of people probably don't know this but there is a free speech to text program that actually included in Windows XP if you are also running office 2007. However the support is extremely sketchy. There is a very confusing information, even conflicting on Microsoft's website and there's not much available online. Fortunately for me I did happen to have office 2007 installed and there was a guide online that explained it from start to finish. It didn't work right away, but after little tweaking I got it to work. I will say this–it is very sketchy. It didn't come close to the Dragon naturally speaking software that I had seen demonstrated on YouTube. I wasn't impressed.
Next I started looking for another alternative. I found a software called talk it type it so I will I decided to give it a try. Talk it type it was the biggest disappointment. It managed to get about 10% of my words correct. What a waste of time! I began my search again, and this time I found a software called Tazti. Now Tazti is a speech to text recognition software which has a free and paid version. I'm not sure why anyone would buy the paid version because the free version worked pretty well. So I began to use the free version and I was impressed! I would guess that Tazti got about 80% of my words correct. But it wasn't enough for me because I still had to go back in and do all these manual corrections are figured I might as well just typed article–which is what I wanted to avoid in the first place. Since I needed a higher degree of accuracy my search was not over. Have this nagging suspicion that Dragon would work better, I headed over to Amazon to get my copy. I ordered it on a Friday and it arrived on Monday. That was cool. Now figured this speech to text software absolutely has to work because it supposed to be the best in the industry . I installed it and right away the software told me that I didn't have enough RAM. It warns me that the program would be running kind of slow on my system. I never even realized that I only had .99 GB of RAM. Dragon naturally speaking requires two GB of RAM as a minimum. But I installed it anyway I figured at this point I've already waited three weeks test it out software didn't work, I'll deal with the RAM issue later.
As of today, Dragon naturally speaking for almost a week and I will admit that it's well worth the money and you get what you pay for. The free text-to-speech software really doesn't even come close to what Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11 is able to do.
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Nice Article!! I have one question. Can we use command line to convert any audio file(mp3/wav) to text using Dragon/Tazti, by just passing the location of audio file as a parameter?
Hi.,
I need to use speech to text recognition in web application.I searching lot sites. Only it refering for Dragon Naturallyspeaking. it's available for trail version..?
I am pretty much in the same situation as you. Thanks for this post, i think the only answer is to buy the software like you did. I will start looking around for the best price. It is about £100 here in the UK ( $165 USD). I have seen it demonstrated on one of the TV shopping channels so at least I will have 30 days try it and if it is no good, I will be able to get my money back.
Thanks for this post, it has been a reat help
Chris Slinger
Hi,
No, there is no trial version unfortunately. I wish they would because its goods software. So many people are skeptical like I was and they would Dragon Nuance would probably sell even more if they let people demo or run a free trial of the software first
I thank you for asking, but I’m really not a technical person, and I didn’t understand your question.
Hi Chris,
Try Amazon .That is where I got mine from and it was the best deal on the Internet.
Do you know how well it does with multiple voices?
If there are two people talking (one asking questions and another answering) does it pick it up ok?
My school is looking at recording one-on-one verbal assessments from students and then having it translated into a word document, do you know if it would have any troubles with voices other then the main user?
Actually I think it will depend alot on the microphones and I do think it will work with multiple voices. That's becasue when I am blogging and my 4 year old enters the room, the software picks up everything he says. And it hasnt been trained on his voice. Then of course I have do go in and edit everything hes just said –but yes, it picks up more than once voice if youve got good mics.