Automatic Speech Recognition (ASRs) are tools that allow spoken words and sentences to be transcribed into text. This can make it easier to communicate with a dialogue system\u00a0by allowing the user to speak audibly instead of typing\u00a0out utterances.<\/p>\n
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Google Speech<\/a>,<\/strong> High, Cloud, Paid<\/a>, Proprietary, A powerful neural network based cloud service that recognizes over 80 languages<\/p>\n Bing Speech<\/a>, High, Cloud, Paid<\/a>, Proprietary, Also adds formatting to text (eg. punctuation; capitalization; masking profanity; etc.)<\/p>\n API.AI<\/a>, High, Cloud, Free, CC 4.0<\/a>, Open-source model based on Kaldi with open source scripts to run it also available<\/p>\n Alexa Voice<\/a>, High, Both, Free, Custom<\/a>, Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service\u00a0includes a full set of NLP tools including ASR<\/p>\n Wit Speech<\/a>, High, Cloud, Free, Custom<\/a>, Facebook’s wit.ai includes a “Speech to JSON” feature<\/p>\n IBM Watson<\/a>, High, Cloud, Paid<\/a>, Proprietary, IBM offers first thousand minutes of speech-to-text\u00a0for free each month<\/p>\n HTK<\/a>, Low, Local, Free, Custom<\/a>, The\u00a0Hidden Markov Model\u00a0ToolKit works with HMMs\u00a0geared toward speech recognition but is\u00a0flexible<\/p>\n CMU Sphinx<\/a>, Low, Local, Free, BSD-style<\/a>, Low resource speech recognition that can even be used on mobile<\/p>\n Kaldi<\/a>, Low, Local, Free, Apache 2.0<\/a>, Open source project designed to be as flexible in its use as possible.<\/p>\n Julius<\/a>, Low, Local, Free, Custom<\/a>, High-performance open source large vocabulary continuous speech recognition software<\/p>\n Speechmatics<\/a>, High, Cloud, Paid<\/a>, Proprietary, Recurrent Neural Network based speech recognition and text-video time alignment<\/p>\n Vocapia<\/a>, High, Cloud, Paid<\/a>, Proprietary, Offers cloud-based speech recognition and other features including language recognition<\/p>\n Simon<\/a>, High,Local, Free, GNU 1.2<\/a>, Wrapper around low-level tools including CMU Sphinx<\/a>\u00a0Julius<\/a>\u00a0and HTK<\/a><\/p>\n Jasper<\/a>, High, Local, Free, MIT<\/a>, Speech recognition designed for easy use with Raspberry Pi<\/p>\n OpenEars<\/a> (iOS), High, Local, Free, Politepix<\/a>, Uses\u00a0CMU Sphinx<\/a>\u00a0in a free-to-use mobile framework for iOS<\/p>\n Apple Dictation<\/a>, High, Local, Free, Proprietary<\/a>, The\u00a0built-in dictation feature of OSX<\/p>\n Microsoft Speech Recognition<\/a>, High, Local, Paid<\/a>, MIT License<\/a>, Microsoft’s speech recognizer. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/table]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Automatic Speech Recognition (ASRs) are tools that allow spoken words and sentences to be transcribed into text. This can make it easier to communicate with a dialogue system\u00a0by allowing the user to speak audibly instead of typing\u00a0out utterances. [table sort=”asc”] Name[attr style=”width: 250px;”], Level, Location, Cost, License, Overview Google Speech, High, Cloud, Paid, Proprietary, A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}