Looking for a Speech to text program

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Anybody know some free program that may convert spoken words in text ?

Even with limitations , as the words to be spoken clearly and slowly

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

PhotoComix wrote:

Anybody know some free program that may convert spoken words in text ?

Even with limitations , as the words to be spoken clearly and slowly

Win 7/8 speech recognition? Just type 'speech recognition' in Start menu.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

So simple ?
Yes i may use 7 but i have no MS Office installed (somewhere i read was needed to activate "'speech recognition") , anyway i am going to try

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I have Siri on my ipad and that is speech recognition, works great. As PC says talk slow and make the words clear or you will end up with words you never heard of.

Mike · **Joined:** Aug 27, 2010 **Posts:** 491

Dragon Naturally Speaking, if you can find a copy online, works as well as anything I've ever used.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:06 pm **(#6)**

Windows Accessibility has Speech Recognition to text.
If you don't mind using the Google API in Chrome, have a look at Dictation.
Digital Inspiration has a review, Dictation – Speech Recognition in the Browser.

Gino D · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2012 **Posts:** 239 **Location:** Italy

Capture2text:

http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Thank for the tips
Do you have first hand experience of use ?

My doubt is for the languages ,
if i feel confident that will work decently for Italian , because even if i have some slight speech defect (= my L sound close to a N , and my R is ...very soft , has not "roaring", ) my pronounce is correct and without dialectal distortions
.. i fear my spoken English quite far from correct ( even if clear for most humans , ...but here maybe is my mimic helps to make it clear ... )

Basically somebody tried to use speech recognition in a foreign language , a language that knows but not perfectly ?