Need a live speech to text software

Ajish

Ajish

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Hello,

My job involves covering conferences where I need to take down what each panelist is saying. So is there any software that can transcribe live speech to text, pretty much error free? Bonus points if it can identify and mark different speakers and also handle Hindi in addition to English.

I know Dragon is there but I was wondering if there were any alternatives. Especially free ones. :D

Thank you!
 
I have not tried it myself but while checking out LLMs, I found that Whisper by Meta is the best speech to speech and speech to text currently. If you can run it locally, it should be free.

Check this:

This is a year old though, and tech moves fast in LLMs, so search on reddit etc. for latest models.
 
TEUser2K1 said:
You are looking for Unicorns...:D
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Yes but had to try. :D Paid alternative options are also welcome. Tho I believe from my basic Googling that Dragon is far above anything else in that domain.

buzz88 said:
I have not tried it myself but while checking out LLMs, I found that Whisper by Meta is the best speech to speech and speech to text currently. If you can run it locally, it should be free.

Check this:

This is a year old though, and tech moves fast in LLMs, so search on reddit etc. for latest models.
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Thank you! Looks interesting! I will definitely look into this.
 
buzz88 said:
I have not tried it myself but while checking out LLMs, I found that Whisper by Meta is the best speech to speech and speech to text currently. If you can run it locally, it should be free.

Check this:

This is a year old though, and tech moves fast in LLMs, so search on reddit etc. for latest model
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Hi is it offline or online software
 
Dragon is very old not sure about there quality now, but dragon was widely used on very important areas.
For free you can try Microsoft OneNote text to speech tool.
 
Ajish said:
Hello,

My job involves covering conferences where I need to take down what each panelist is saying. So is there any software that can transcribe live speech to text, pretty much error free? Bonus points if it can identify and mark different speakers and also handle Hindi in addition to English.

I know Dragon is there but I was wondering if there were any alternatives. Especially free ones. :D

Thank you!
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Do you use Teams for video conferencing? Teams has a good enough Live Transcribe CC option (Not sure if you need some specific commercial license to use it or not. In my MNC office, I can see it available when we are conducting meetings on Teams)
Teams Live Transcribe works well for English. Have not checked Hindi recognition in it (I don't really expect it to understand hindi)

Also, if you want to try something, Install GBoard on mobile and set it as default keyboard. Set default language as Hindi or Multilingual for GBoard. Then use the Voice Typing option inside Whatsapp via GBoard, when your call is going on. GBoard has pretty good Indian language recognition( I have not used it with Hindi. But my mom uses it for writing in Bengali)
 
oprime05 said:
Do you use Teams for video conferencing? Teams has a good enough Live Transcribe CC option (Not sure if you need some specific commercial license to use it or not. In my MNC office, I can see it available when we are conducting meetings on Teams)
Teams Live Transcribe works well for English. Have not checked Hindi recognition in it (I don't really expect it to understand hindi)

Also, if you want to try something, Install GBoard on mobile and set it as default keyboard. Set default language as Hindi or Multilingual for GBoard. Then use the Voice Typing option inside Whatsapp via GBoard, when your call is going on. GBoard has pretty good Indian language recognition( I have not used it with Hindi. But my mom uses it for writing in Bengali)
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If not wrong, team uses same model/engine which is used by MS OneNote.
 
oprime05 said:
Do you use Teams for video conferencing? Teams has a good enough Live Transcribe CC option (Not sure if you need some specific commercial license to use it or not. In my MNC office, I can see it available when we are conducting meetings on Teams)
Teams Live Transcribe works well for English. Have not checked Hindi recognition in it (I don't really expect it to understand hindi)

Also, if you want to try something, Install GBoard on mobile and set it as default keyboard. Set default language as Hindi or Multilingual for GBoard. Then use the Voice Typing option inside Whatsapp via GBoard, when your call is going on. GBoard has pretty good Indian language recognition( I have not used it with Hindi. But my mom uses it for writing in Bengali)
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Thank you but I should have specified I guess. By conferences I mean live events. So people sitting/standing on an actual stage and lecturing. :D
 
If you have a google Android phone the best live transcription should be built into your phone. App launch is not like normal though.
70 Language support including Hindi

Steps below for a Android 14 Samsung tablet.
  • First make sure that you have this installed. This is not a third party app but made by research at google https://play.google.com/store/apps/...alization.accessibility.scribe&hl=en_IN&pli=1
  • To launch Go to setting > accessibility > Installed apps > Live Transcribe
  • You can add a shortcut to launch it easily. (Advisable to set it as launching it this way is troublesome)
  • The thing is pretty powerful but experimental I suppose so its not part of normal package like google translate, gmail etc.
  • You should be able to copy to a note taking app or email it to yourself and easily store and catalog it.
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Tested for Hindi as well. Hindi seems to be in Beta for so under beta testing. Had to download the language pack inside the app. Not perfect but should be enough to work through. It cant detect launguage automatically you need to manually switch based on speaker.
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ronnie_gogs said:
If you have a google Android phone the best live transcription should be built into your phone. App launch is not like normal though.
70 Language support including Hindi

Steps below for a Android 14 Samsung tablet.
  • First make sure that you have this installed. This is not a third party app but made by research at google https://play.google.com/store/apps/...alization.accessibility.scribe&hl=en_IN&pli=1
  • To launch Go to setting > accessibility > Installed apps > Live Transcribe
  • You can add a shortcut to launch it easily. (Advisable to set it as launching it this way is troublesome)
  • The thing is pretty powerful but experimental I suppose so its not part of normal package like google translate, gmail etc.
  • You should be able to copy to a note taking app or email it to yourself and easily store and catalog it.
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Tested for Hindi as well. Hindi seems to be in Beta for so under beta testing. Had to download the language pack inside the app. Not perfect but should be enough to work through. It cant detect launguage automatically you need to manually switch based on speaker.
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Oh wow this looks awesome! Thanks!
 
ronnie_gogs said:
If you have a google Android phone the best live transcription should be built into your phone. App launch is not like normal though.
70 Language support including Hindi

Steps below for a Android 14 Samsung tablet.
  • First make sure that you have this installed. This is not a third party app but made by research at google https://play.google.com/store/apps/...alization.accessibility.scribe&hl=en_IN&pli=1
  • To launch Go to setting > accessibility > Installed apps > Live Transcribe
  • You can add a shortcut to launch it easily. (Advisable to set it as launching it this way is troublesome)
  • The thing is pretty powerful but experimental I suppose so its not part of normal package like google translate, gmail etc.
  • You should be able to copy to a note taking app or email it to yourself and easily store and catalog it.
View attachment 215472View attachment 215473
View attachment 215474

Tested for Hindi as well. Hindi seems to be in Beta for so under beta testing. Had to download the language pack inside the app. Not perfect but should be enough to work through. It cant detect launguage automatically you need to manually switch based on speaker.
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Haven’t used this but Iphone also has this feature.

Get live captions of spoken audio on iPhone

On iPhone, see live captions to more easily follow the audio in any app, such as FaceTime or Podcasts, and in live conversations around you.
support.apple.com
 
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