Dictation and voice command tools
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Tools[edit | edit source]
| Name | Dictation? | Voice commands? | Dictate in browser | Dictate in any program | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braina | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dictate into third party software and websites, fill web forms and execute vocal commands. | |
| Caster | Yes | No | No | Caster (built on the Dragonfly framework) | |
| Click by Voice (by mdbridge) | No | Yes | No | No | Chrome extension allowing activating links & other HTML elements w/ voice commands |
| Dragon Professional Individual (DPI) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| DragonUtilities | Add-Ons for Dragon Speech Recognition | ||||
| KnowBrainer 2017 Command Utility (currently using this) | No | Yes | No | No | |
| LipSurf | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Google Chrome extension, adds commands and (if you pay), dictation, inside Chrome. Interesting command called ‘Tags’ where all clickable UI elements in Chrome are numbered so you can click on them by voice. Similar to ‘Show numbers’ in KnowBrainer 2017, and a few other programs that offer the same functionality.
Seems to use Google’s speech recognition engine. |
| Otter.ai: Otter Voice Meeting Notes | Yes | ||||
| SpeechMagic | Yes | Example | Nuance Communications acquired Philips owned. Medical industry focus according to Frost & Sullivan. Standalone or embedded. | ||
| Speechnotes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Speech Productivity (SP) | Yes | Yes | Offers a much improved Dictation Box. | ||
| SpeechTexter | Yes | Yes | |||
| Talon | Yes | Yes | Voice command software. Developer is currently developing his own speech engine (based on Facebook technology, if memory serves). | ||
| 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. | ||||
| Vocola / Unimacro | No | Yes | No | No | Open source alternative to KnowBrainer 2017 (see above). Commands stored as easy-to-edit text. |
| VoiceComputer | add-on for Dragon | ||||
| Windows Speech Recognition / Cortana | Yes | Yes | Crap, as usual, from Microsoft. |
External links[edit | edit source]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software
- https://www.knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/ (Best places to learn about dictation, voice commands, etc.)
- Voice Recognition: a Brief Comparison of Dictation Extensions for Google Chrome
Still processing: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://kaldi-asr.org/ https://github.com/julius-speech/julius https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/DeepSpeech https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq https://alphacephei.com/vosk/ https://github.com/athena-team/athena https://espnet.github.io/espnet/ https://fosspost.org/open-source-speech-recognition-2020/