Just had a brief look at the Dreamedia web site.
The first thing that strikes me is that it looks like you would need the combined income of all the OPEC Oil States to be able to afford it and I can't see it reaching the DSA budget levels for some while yet. I would also suspect that you would need a six months training course to master it. I am afraid I am also suspicious of any workeable study strategy that can be built around such a facility being readily available?.
Perhaps there is still something to be said for the "Little Grey Cells" perhaps we could make fish available on the DSA?. The Cornish always said Pilchard and Mackrel are the best, seeing as they have borne many of the great engineers, artists and writers over the years and were the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution they may have a point.
Worth a thought, and probably a lot cheaper.
Regards
Terry Hart
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From: Bernard Doherty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 March 2003 16:52
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Audio to text
What an amazing coincidence! Only this morning I was asking Rhun if he
has seen the improbable Dremedia video editing software in action. (No
he hadn't and neither have I or anyone else I ask). Check out their
advert: http://www.dremedia.com/
It looks absoultely incredible (I mean, I don't believe it). Has
anyone else seen this and does it work at all? Last I looked, the tell-
your-life-story-and-receive-our-secret-information page was down (which
always fills you with confidence when dealing with a hi-tech company),
so I've no idea how much the whole package costs or who developed the
speech recognition system. Any information will be gratefully received.
Regards, Bernard
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:33:23 -0000 Peter Childs <[log in to unmask]>
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> Interesting one.
>
> There is technology in development that is trying to do this job - you
> may have seen it being tried during the Jubilee celebrations by
> teletext.
>
> It is a very difficult procedure to take into account different accents,
> speech speeds and pitch as you would get from a video.
>
> There is one piece of equipment that can do this quite effectively. It
> is generally grey and jelly like
>
> If there is a practical facility to interface this equipment 'Dragon'
> will do a reasonable job. If a transcribers listens to the sound track
> on headphones and speaks what is heard into a Dragon System. The brain
> is very good at this and does not need the transcribers to understand
> the content of the sound track. Of course this need only be done once
> per video and is practical for frequently used videos - for the one-off
> the estimate is that we are still some 5 years off a practical all
> electronic system that is accurate enough for minimal post input
> correction
>
> Peter Childs
> Microlink PC
> IT Manager
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Botwright, Ken [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 March 2003 15:13
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Audio to text
>
> Is it possible to transpose audio files such as .WAV or MP3, into text?
> Is
> there technology that can do this? This is to assist HI students with
> the
> sound content from videos.
> Regards
> Ken Botwright
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> 01603 773549
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