# 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.

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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](https://www.speechmatics.com/transcription-web-portal-deprecation-notice).
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1. [~~Speechmatics~~](speech-to-text/speechmatics)
2. [AssemblyAI](speech-to-text/assemblyai)
3. [Mozilla Deep Speech](speech-to-text/mozilla-deepspeech) (Open Source, need to download 1.8gig for the English language model)
4. [Pocketsphinx](speech-to-text/pocketsphinx) (Open Source, integrate inside the app, no extra setup needed)

## Overview

### AssemblyAI  <a href="#ibm-watson-stt-service" id="ibm-watson-stt-service"></a>

* Free tier: 5 hours free per month
* Competitive [pricing at $0.0003 per second](https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing)
* Easy to setup credentials&#x20;
* Generally very accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)
* For now only support for English but more coming soon

### ~~Speechmatics~~  <a href="#ibm-watson-stt-service" id="ibm-watson-stt-service"></a>

* ~~1 hour free credit with new account~~&#x20;
* ~~Easy to setup credentials~~&#x20;
* ~~Generally pretty accurate (my opinion, judge for yourself)~~
* [~~28 languages, see full list~~](https://www.speechmatics.com/language-support/)&#x20;
* ~~Including support for "accent agnostic global english".~~

### Mozilla Deepspeech  <a href="#gentle-open-source-stt" id="gentle-open-source-stt"></a>

#### 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 ](speech-to-text/mozilla-deepspeech).

### Pocketsphinx  <a href="#pocketsphinx-open-source-stt" id="pocketsphinx-open-source-stt"></a>

#### 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 ](https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2)originally extracted from [Videogrep](https://github.com/antiboredom/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.](speech-to-text/pocketsphinx)

