[R] How to use R for Speech to text conversion

[Jeff Newmiller]

Whether you use RStudio is up to you... the heavy lifting would be done by R anyway.

I am not a STT person, but TensorFlow was recently released on CRAN [1] so there may be more opportunities for R users to make headway in this area.

[1] https://tensorflow.rstudio.com/installation/

On October 7, 2020 11:31:41 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
>Have you checked here:
>https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html
>
>Speech to text is a very complex, specialized task requiring, I would
>expect, a lot of IP. It would not surprise
>me if you have to resort to big time, specialized software products
>with or
>without R. "Speech to text with R"
>found some hits, but mostly the google package you refer to. You might
>do
>better with Python.
>
>Bert Gunter
>
>"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>and
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>
>
>On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:31 AM Gayathri Nagarajan <
>gayathri.nagarajan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Iam a newbie to NLP and I would like to get some directions on how to
>> convert speech file to text
>>
>> Google search leads me to using GoogleLanguageR Package and API's but
>these
>> need payments to be made for Google.
>>
>> Can someone suggest ways in which I can do the speech to text
>conversion in
>> R studio ?
>>
>> Thanks for your help and time
>>
>> Regards
>> Gayathri
>>
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