voice file to word file conversion app?

[beavereater]

Does anyone know of any software that can take an mp3 or wav file and then convert it into text, kind of like a voice recognition program? Something free would be best.

[guns1inger]

Looks old, but may work

http://www.pcsoftland.com/audio/text-to-speech/Wave-To-Text.htm

[Bodyslide]

Working Link Here...It's 23 megs...

http://ftp.saix.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/sndmisc/vexp007.zip

[mats.hogberg]

Don't expect miracles tho - It's surprising how hard this (seemingly) simple task still is for copmputers.

/Mats

[beavereater]

Gonna give it a try, I'll let everyone know how it works.

[beavereater]

The wav file I had started with "Welcome to the annual symposium for professional education"...and that was translated into "We come to anus Simpson four pros annotation" Oh well...it was worth a shot.

[mats.hogberg]

Instant standup comedy! !

/Mats

[redwudz]

One of the best known programs for general use is Dragon Naturally Speaking: http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/

It's not cheap, though, about $100US. It does a fair job, but works best with only one person speaking as you need to 'train' it to work with your voice. For recorded material, you would probably want to apply some audio filtering to clean it up, an even then, any background noises or interference will mess it up. No matter what you use, you will have typos to correct.

If you have needed to call Microsoft lately to re-activate Windows, they have a very good voice recognition system. Unknown what they are using for that purpose, though.

[mats.hogberg]

I've also used some voice driven automated phone services (most notably a train ticket booking system). I think they work that well as they do, as the # of possible words to react to are limited. Like "What is your desired time of departure? Say hour and minute" There's only 24 possible answers to hour, and 60 to minute.

/Mats