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# STT sdks

## Component/part description

it was important for the transcriber to have the flexibility of working with different solution for Speech To Text.

Eg currently working with

* IBM Watson STT, 
* Gentle Open Source STT
* Pocketsphinx 

However in the future, could integrate with other providers such as speechmatics, Google, Microsoft Bing etc..

## Component/part description

## Related projects

## Implementations Options considered

## Current implementation

## What needs refactoring

use design patterns to clean this up, and make it easier to extend. eg Strategy or factory?