There are three options for speech to text APIs that you can use with this system.

Check them out individually for extra setup instruction.

1. ​Speechmatics​

2. ​AssemblyAI​

3. ​Mozilla Deep Speech (Open Source, need to download 1.8gig for the English language model)

4. ​Pocketsphinx (Open Source, integrate inside the app, no extra setup needed)

Overview

AssemblyAI

• Free tier: 5 hours free per month

• Competitive pricing at $0.0003 per second​

• Easy to setup credentials

• Generally very accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)

• For now only support for English but more coming soon

Speechmatics

• 1 hour free credit with new account

• Easy to setup credentials

• Generally pretty accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)

• ​28 languages, see full list

• Including support for "accent agnostic global english".

Mozilla Deepspeech

Pros:

• Free as in free speech as well as in free beer.

• Working locally on your machine. No internet connection needed because of that, good for sensitive material.

• Open source

• requires to download 1.8gig for the English language model

Cons:

• Not as accurate as commercial STT but still pretty good (in my opinion, but decide for yourself).

• Only support US english STT.

​Check out for extra setup instructions for Mozilla Deepspeech .

Pocketsphinx

Pros:

• Free as in free speech as well as in free beer.

• working locally on your machine. no internet connection needed because of that, good for sensitive material.

• ​Open source module in autoEdit originally extracted from Videogrep project.

Cons:

• Not as accurate as IBM or Gentle.

• Only support US english STT.

• Transcription takes a little longer then the length of the media. (eg 27 min takes 30 min to transcribe).

​Pocketsphinx does not require extra setup to use.​

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