The document is a synopsis for a mini project on speech to text recognition. It includes details about the group members, an abstract describing speech recognition systems, a literature survey reviewing existing research on speech to text tools, proposed system block diagrams, and a conclusion discussing the history and future of speech recognition. The key aspects are converting speech to text using hidden Markov models and neural networks, with APIs and Python SDKs available to develop speech recognition applications without deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms.
The document is a synopsis for a mini project on speech to text recognition. It includes details about the group members, an abstract describing speech recognition systems, a literature survey reviewing existing research on speech to text tools, proposed system block diagrams, and a conclusion discussing the history and future of speech recognition. The key aspects are converting speech to text using hidden Markov models and neural networks, with APIs and Python SDKs available to develop speech recognition applications without deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms.
The document is a synopsis for a mini project on speech to text recognition. It includes details about the group members, an abstract describing speech recognition systems, a literature survey reviewing existing research on speech to text tools, proposed system block diagrams, and a conclusion discussing the history and future of speech recognition. The key aspects are converting speech to text using hidden Markov models and neural networks, with APIs and Python SDKs available to develop speech recognition applications without deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms.
The document is a synopsis for a mini project on speech to text recognition. It includes details about the group members, an abstract describing speech recognition systems, a literature survey reviewing existing research on speech to text tools, proposed system block diagrams, and a conclusion discussing the history and future of speech recognition. The key aspects are converting speech to text using hidden Markov models and neural networks, with APIs and Python SDKs available to develop speech recognition applications without deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms.
.com Abstract: Speech is the most common means of communication and the majority of the population in the world relies on speech to communicate with one another. Speech recognition systems basically translate spoken languages into text. There are various real-life examples of speech recognition systems. For example, Apple SIRI which recognizes the speech and truncates it into text.
Literature Survey: Speech-to-Text (STT) system is a system for the conversion of speech into text. As computerized speech-to-text (STT) technology has become more advanced over the past several years, more students with, and without, disabilities are using STT tools within the classroom and while taking assessments. Speech-to-text tools often are installed on school-provided computers or tablets and thus could also be widely available to students for instructional use. First, it highlights what the available literature tells us about the characteristics of scholars who used STT for instruction and assessment and therefore the methodologies and outcomes variables related to those studies. Second, it describes the implementation of STT tools (e.g., training within the use of STT, student attitudes toward the tools, and comparison of various sorts of tools). Third, it describes the effect of technology on academic outcomes for college kids with differing types of disabilities.
Most modern speech recognition systems believe what's referred to as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). This approach works on the idea that a speech signal, when viewed on a brief enough timescale (say 10 ms) are often reasonably approximated as a stationary process, that's a process during which statistical properties don't change over time. In a typical HMM, the speech signal is split into 10-millisecond fragments. the facility spectrum of every fragment, which is actually a plot of the signal’s power as a function of frequency, is mapped to a vector of real numbers referred to as cepstral coefficients. The dimension of this vector is typically small—sometimes as low as 10, although more accurate systems may have dimension 32 or more. the ultimate output of the HMM may be a sequence of those vectors. To decode the speech into text, groups of vectors are matched to at least one or more phonemes—a fundamental unit of speech. This calculation requires training, since the sound of a phoneme varies from speaker to speaker, and even varies from one utterance to a different by an equivalent speaker. A special algorithm is then applied to work out the foremost likely word (or words) that produce the given sequence of phonemes. One can imagine that this whole process could also be computationally expensive. In many modern speech recognition systems, neural networks are wont to simplify the speech signal using techniques for feature transformation and dimensionality reduction before HMM recognition. Voice activity detectors ( VADs) also are wont to reduce an audio signal to only the portions that are likely to contain speech. This prevents the recognizer from dalliance analyzing unnecessary parts of the signal.
Fortunately, as a Python programmer, you don’t need to worry about any of this. Several application of speech recognition services are available to be used online through an API, and lots of of those services offer Python SDKs. Proposed System (Block Diagram):
A simplified overview of speech to text recognition using Speech recognition API using Python.
Block diagram representing speech to text recognition using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Flowchart Conclusion:
Speech Recognition has been in development of more than 60 years. The various speech recognition methodologies and approaches are available to enhance the recognition system. The fundamentals of SR system, various approaches existing for developing an ASR system are explained and compared in this paper. In recent years large vocabulary independent continuous speech has highly enhanced. In order to improve the accuracy, other modeling techniques will be implemented in future.
References:
Susanne Wagner(Halle), “Intralingual speech to text conversion real time challenges & opportunities”. Retrieved on 6 June 2005. Preeti Saini, Parneet Kaur,”Automatic Speech Recognition: A Review” proc International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology- Volume4 Issue2- 2013. http://www.ijetajournal.org/
