Speech to text options
There are three options for speech to text APIs that you can use with this system.
Check them out individually for extra setup instruction.
Unfortunately Speechmatics is no longer an option as they discontinuing their web portal (meaning the access to STT with API key will no longer be supported) from 30th of Sept 2020. See their deprecation notice for more details.
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- Free tier: 5 hours free per month
- Easy to setup credentials
- Generally very accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)
- For now only support for English but more coming soon
- 1 hour free credit with new account
- Easy to setup credentials
- Generally pretty accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)
- Including support for "accent agnostic global english".
- 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
- Not as accurate as commercial STT but still pretty good (in my opinion, but decide for yourself).
- Only support US english STT.
- 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.
- 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).
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