Comments on: SpinVox, Voice-to-Text and Some Terminology http://www.okkoblog.com/2010/01/18/spinvox-voice-to-text-and-some-terminology/ Working with speech and language technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: philippine tv online http://www.okkoblog.com/2010/01/18/spinvox-voice-to-text-and-some-terminology/comment-page-1/#comment-22 philippine tv online Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:44:34 +0000 http://www.okkoblog.com/?p=156#comment-22 I used osx's 'text to mp3' to do the voice within my Youtube video. So trust me guys, voice things work great, you should use them too! One problem I had was when it tried to pronounce some 'fake' words/ sounds like 'woosh', but with practice it's easy :-) I used osx’s ‘text to mp3′ to do the voice within my Youtube video. So trust me guys, voice things work great, you should use them too! One problem I had was when it tried to pronounce some ‘fake’ words/ sounds like ‘woosh’, but with practice it’s easy :-)

]]> By: Okko http://www.okkoblog.com/2010/01/18/spinvox-voice-to-text-and-some-terminology/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Okko Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:51:30 +0000 http://www.okkoblog.com/?p=156#comment-19 Thanks for those links. That study slipped by me. I'm very curious to see where this is going. Some obvious questions are how accessible and pervasive voice transcription will become. Will there be a healthy developer base (voice technologies always suffer from having a small, somewhat esoteric one). What about "real" web APIs, leveraging this stuff for mash ups like smart ad placements in video, 3rd party calendar plug-ins, etc.. How to enable real international market penetration is also big question. English speaking ones appear reaching a good level of maturity. I've <a href="http://www.okkoblog.com/2008/05/05/internationalization-and-speech-technologies/" rel="nofollow">previously written</a> about the fact that there is no long tail in speech and language technology development. The buy-in costs per market/language remain the same, regardless of market size. Capital per market however varies greatly. This could be a real show stopper. Thoughts? Thanks for those links. That study slipped by me.

I’m very curious to see where this is going. Some obvious questions are how accessible and pervasive voice transcription will become. Will there be a healthy developer base (voice technologies always suffer from having a small, somewhat esoteric one). What about “real” web APIs, leveraging this stuff for mash ups like smart ad placements in video, 3rd party calendar plug-ins, etc..

How to enable real international market penetration is also big question. English speaking ones appear reaching a good level of maturity. I’ve previously written about the fact that there is no long tail in speech and language technology development. The buy-in costs per market/language remain the same, regardless of market size. Capital per market however varies greatly. This could be a real show stopper.

Thoughts?

]]> By: James Siminoff http://www.okkoblog.com/2010/01/18/spinvox-voice-to-text-and-some-terminology/comment-page-1/#comment-18 James Siminoff Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:23:39 +0000 http://www.okkoblog.com/?p=156#comment-18 You should check out, http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/phonetag-voice-to-text-86-percent-accurate-google-voice/. You will probably also be interested in the study, http://www.scribd.com/doc/26017529/Accuracy-of-Voicemail-To-text-Services. I think that this will be a very interesting market to follow in the next few years. You should check out, http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/phonetag-voice-to-text-86-percent-accurate-google-voice/. You will probably also be interested in the study, http://www.scribd.com/doc/26017529/Accuracy-of-Voicemail-To-text-Services.

I think that this will be a very interesting market to follow in the next few years.

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