List of speech recognition software

This is a list of speech recognition software.

1 Open source acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)
2 Macintosh
3 Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome
4 Mobile devices and smartphones
5 Windows
6 Built-in software
7 Interactive voice response
8 Unix-like x86 and x86_64 speech transcription software
9 Discontinued software
10 See also
11 References

Open source acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)[edit]

The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief synopsis of characteristics.

Application name	Description	Open Source	License	Operating System	Programming Language	Supported Language/Note	Offline vs Online
CMU Sphinx	HMM	Yes	BSD style	Multi-platform	C/Java/Python	English	Offline
HTK	HMM neural net.	No	HTK Specific License	Multi-platform	C	English. Version 3.5 released December 2015.
Julius	HMM trigrams	Yes	BSD-like	Multi-platform	C	Japanese, English(non-commercial)[1]	Offline
Kaldi	Neural net	Yes	Apache	Multi-platform	C++	English
RWTH ASR	RWTH Aachen University	No	RWTH ASR License	Linux, macOS	C++	English. Non-commercial use only

The following lists open-source applications that provide convenient user interfaces for the above.

Application name	Description	Open Source	License	Operating System	Programming Language	Supported Language/Note
Simon	Supports Sphinx, HTK, Julius	Yes	GPLv2	Multi-platform	C++	English
Jasper project	Raspberry Pi front-end for CMU Sphinx or Julius	Yes	MIT License	Linux	Python	English

Macintosh[edit]

Application name	Description	Open Source	License
Dragon Dictate	Mac OS (by Nuance)	No	Proprietary
MacSpeech Scribe	Transcription from recorded text
iListen	PowerPC Macintosh
Speakable items	Included with Mac OS
ViaVoice	IBM Product. Purchased by Nuance.
Voice Navigator	Original GUI voice control (1989)

Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome[edit]

The following list presents notable speech recognition software that operate in a Chrome browser as web apps. They make use of HTML5 Web-Speech-API.^[1]

Application name	Description	Open Source	License	Price
Happy Scribe^[2]	Cloud based transcription service	No	Commercial	From 10¢/minute
Voice Notebook	Free dictation, voice typing to clipboard and to web text fields. Windows and Linux integration	No	Commercial	Free
SpeechTexter^[3]	Online speech recognition and editor	No	Commercial	Free
Speechnotes	Dictation notepad - professional speech recognizing text editor web app	No	Commercial	Free
Go-Transcribe.com	Cloud based transcription service	No	Commercial	Subscription based
Speechmatics^[4]	Cloud based and on-premise automatic speech recognition	No	Commercial	From £0.06 per minute of audio
Trint	Convert audio/video to text, search and verify in online editor that glues audio to text.	No	Commercial	From 17¢/minute

Mobile devices and smartphones[edit]

Many cell-phone handsets have basic dial-by-voice features built in. Smartphones such as iPhones and BlackBerrys also support this. A number of third-party apps have implemented natural-language speech-recognition support, including:

Application name	Description	Open Source	License	Price	Note
Assistant.ai	Assistant for Android, iOS and Windows Phone			Free	Discontinued
Dragon Dictation		No		Free
Google Now	Android voice search	No		Free
Google Voice Search		No		Free
Microsoft Cortana	Microsoft voice search	No		Free
Siri Personal Assistant	Apple's virtual personal assistant	No		Free
Alexa - Amazon Echo	Amazon's Personal Assistant	No	Commercial
KidSense.ai	Children focused speech recognition for Linux, RTOS, Android and iOS	No	Commercial
SILVIA	Android and iOS	No
Vlingo

Windows[edit]

Windows built-in speech recognition[edit]

The Windows Speech Recognition version 8.0 by Microsoft comes built into Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows; meaning you cannot use the speech recognition engine in one language if you use a version of Windows in another language. Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro allow you to change the system language, and therefore change which speech engine is available. Windows Speech Recognition evolved into Cortana (software), a personal assistant found in Windows 10.

Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition[edit]

VoiceAttack - is used primarily by the gaming community to allow hands-free keyboard and mouse input in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its popularity lies mainly in its ease of use and extended feature set, which includes the ability to create multi-threaded macros.^[5]
Livrot Mic Command - modern desktop and gaming speech recognition with full SRGS grammar support, programmable multi threaded macros with independent data system. Windows 7,8 and 10.^[6]
VAC - Voice Activated Commands is a feature rich speech recognition solution for games. It works with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Voice Finger – software for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that improves the Windows speech recognition system by adding several extensions to accelerate and improve the mouse and keyboard control.
www.trigramtech.com – adds medical vocabularies(language models) for medical users. Can be licensed for individuals, groups or OEM integration into speech applications using Windows Speech.
Vocola – a macro language
Vocaya (^[7]) is a software to bind keys to the voice. it is used with games and any other software. Community oriented to share, with the ability to edit knowledges.

Windows 7/8/10 third-party speech recognition[edit]

Auditory Sciences^[8]—transcription software for captioning whatever someone says.
Braina - Dictate into third party software and websites.^[9]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Communications – Successor to the older DragonDictate product. Focus on dictation. 64-bit Windows support since version 10.1.
Freesr Speech Recognition Software – Create voice interfaces for any application, window in an application, or website/webpage. Works with Windows Speech Recognition or as add-on to NaturallySpeaking.
SpeechGear Interact - combines speech recognition with language translation.^[10]
Sonic Extractor from Digital Syphon – Supports 22 languages. Focus on broadcasting and telephony.
SpeechMagic – Nuance Communications acquired Philips owned. Medical industry focus according to Frost & Sullivan. Standalone or embedded.^[11]
Tazti - Create speech command profiles to play PC games and control applications - programs. Create speech commands to open files, folders, webpages, applications. Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 versions.^[12]
VoiceboxMD - Real time dictation powered by Machine Learning. Medical industry focused. Used by physicians, practitioners, dentists etc for medical and clinical documentation.^[13]
VoxCommando – Voice command utility for Windows Vista or later. It interfaces with various programs and devices to allow control of multimedia, communication, and home automation. Supports 20 world languages/dialects because users can choose to use Microsoft's desktop speech engine or Speech Platform 11. It does not use any cloud-based speech recognition platforms. Supports SAPI5 TTS voices.
Vestec Inc. - Specializing in Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition solutions. ASR, NLU and TTS engines support 17 languages in server, embedded (on low cost chip) or cloud based environments.

Windows XP or 2000 only[edit]

Microsoft Speech API – Speech recognition functionality included as part of Microsoft Office and on Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It can also be downloaded as part of the Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows applications, but since that is aimed at developers building speech applications, the pure SDK form lacks any user interface, and thus is unsuitable for end users.
e-Speaking – software for Windows XP that facilitates use of the Microsoft Speech API by adding ability to create commands to perform custom actions.
Vestec Inc. - Specializing in Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition solutions. ASR, NLU and TTS engines support 17 languages in server, embedded (on low cost chip) or cloud based environments.

Built-in software[edit]

Microsoft Kinect includes built-in software which allow speech-recognition of commands.
Older generation of Nokia phones like Nokia N Series ( before using Windows 7 mobile technology) used speech-recognition with family names from contact list and other few commands.
Siri—originally implemented in the iPhone 4S—Apple's personal assistant for iOS which uses technology from Nuance Communications.
Cortana (software) Microsoft's personal assistant built into Windows Phone and Windows 10.

Interactive voice response[edit]

The following are IVR/Interactive Voice response systems:

CSLU Toolkit
Convergys Interactive Voice Portal IVR
Genesys^[14]
HTK — copyrighted by Microsoft, but altering the software for the Licensee's internal use is allowed.
Freesr Speech Recognition Software
LumenVox ASR
Telisma ASR
Nuance Recognizer ASR
Rubidium Ltd. ASR
Simmortel Voice
Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft)
Parlance nameConnector

Unix-like x86 and x86_64 speech transcription software[edit]

Discontinued software[edit]

Game Commander 2 by Mindmaker. Gaming oriented voice recognition. Voice commands can be assigned to issue keystrokes and key combinations.
IBM ViaVoice – Embedded version still maintained by IBM.^[18] No longer supported for versions above Windows Vista.^[19] Untested above Mac OS X 10.4 or on Macintoshes with an Intel chipset.^[20]
Quack.com (acquired by AOL) The name has now been reused for an iPad search app.
SpeechWorks from Nuance Communications.
Yap Speech Cloud - Speech-to-text platform acquired by Amazon.com.

References[edit]

^ "Web Speech API Specification". dvcs.w3.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21.
^ "Two college students started a transcription service. After journalists heard about it, it crashed". Poynter. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
^ "SpeechTexter - Online Speech to Text Converter and Editor". Archived from the original on 2017-09-03.
^ Orlowski, Andrew. "Total recog: British AI makes universal speech breakthrough". The Register. Situation Publishing. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^ "VoiceAttack - Voice Recognition for Games and Apps". www.voiceattack.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-07.
^ http://www.livrot.com Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Vocaya. "Vocaya - Give the power to your voice". www.vocaya.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-23.
^ "News from MassMATCH". www.massmatch.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-25.
^ "Speech Recognition Software for Windows PC - Braina". www.brainasoft.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-07.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
^ "Philips SpeechMagic™ named European Technology Leader by Frost & Sullivan". www.frost.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15.
^ O'Neill, Mark (2013-11-06). "Control your PC with these 5 speech recognition programs". PC World. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
^ "Top 3 medical dictation software reviews". Practice Post. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^ "Interactive Voice Response". Genesys. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14.
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ Lavie, A.; Waibel, A.; Levin, L.; Finke, M.; Gates, D.; Gavalda, M.; Zeppenfeld, T.; Zhan, Puming (1 April 1997). "Janus-III: speech-to-speech translation in multiple languages". pp. 99–102 vol.1. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1997.599557 – via IEEE Xplore.
^ vocapia.com. "Speech to Text VoxSigma Software Suite - Vocapia". www.vocapia.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-16.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
^ "Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows 7". nuance.custhelp.com.
^ "ViaVoice for Mac OS X on Intel Chipset". nuance.custhelp.com.

[1] "Web Speech API Specification". dvcs.w3.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21.

[2] "Two college students started a transcription service. After journalists heard about it, it crashed". Poynter. Retrieved 2018-08-06.

[3] "SpeechTexter - Online Speech to Text Converter and Editor". Archived from the original on 2017-09-03.

[4] Orlowski, Andrew. "Total recog: British AI makes universal speech breakthrough". The Register. Situation Publishing. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

[5] "VoiceAttack - Voice Recognition for Games and Apps". www.voiceattack.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-07.

[6] ttp://www.livrot.com Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine.

[7] Vocaya. "Vocaya - Give the power to your voice". www.vocaya.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-23.

[8] "News from MassMATCH". www.massmatch.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-25.

[9] "Speech Recognition Software for Windows PC - Braina". www.brainasoft.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-07.

[10] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2015-01-25.

[11] "Philips SpeechMagic™ named European Technology Leader by Frost & Sullivan". www.frost.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15.

[12] O'Neill, Mark (2013-11-06). "Control your PC with these 5 speech recognition programs". PC World. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2013-12-30.

[13] "Top 3 medical dictation software reviews". Practice Post. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

[14] "Interactive Voice Response". Genesys. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14.

[15] [1]^{[dead link]}

[16] Lavie, A.; Waibel, A.; Levin, L.; Finke, M.; Gates, D.; Gavalda, M.; Zeppenfeld, T.; Zhan, Puming (1 April 1997). "Janus-III: speech-to-speech translation in multiple languages". pp. 99–102 vol.1. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1997.599557 – via IEEE Xplore.

[17] vocapia.com. "Speech to Text VoxSigma Software Suite - Vocapia". www.vocapia.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-16.

[18] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

[19] "Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows 7". nuance.custhelp.com.

[20] "ViaVoice for Mac OS X on Intel Chipset". nuance.custhelp.com.

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List of speech recognition software

Contents

Open source acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)[edit]

Macintosh[edit]

Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome[edit]

Mobile devices and smartphones[edit]

Windows[edit]

Windows built-in speech recognition[edit]

Add-ons for Windows 7 speech recognition[edit]

Windows 7/8/10 third-party speech recognition[edit]

Windows XP or 2000 only[edit]

Built-in software[edit]

Interactive voice response[edit]

Unix-like x86 and x86_64 speech transcription software[edit]

Discontinued software[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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