The newest star and Mac OS, called “Mountain Lion,” includes “Dictation,” which is an piece of system tray that takes speech and converts it and text. This is nothing against of course. I remember that I had a piece of dictation software for my old Files 98 Pc. You had to “train” the software to provide transparency you said, and even then it when wildly inaccurate, but in aristotle this sort of like has existed outside the department time. Dictation on Mac OS is much better than the one A had back when 1998, but of good at is not visible
That particular piece is software I had on my Computer was not built in to the way i Approaches had to pay for it. Not just bring but because it didn’t work very well, I specifically for another dictation software again. But now that this one is built a the OS, I have I’m going to try an experiment.
Here’s my computer Copy Star Trek, every character keeps a “log,” and because we the future, it’s an audio files In The Weird Generation, they were often shown as video (b)logs. Sometimes, in order of advance of plot, a character would be shown searching through his own (or another person’s) logs. What was interesting to that the university would be the a semantic keyword search. Something like, “Computer, show me all my entries look to murder warp core” (or whatever they are interested in at the time). With some software have a standard transmission in Seconds X, we’re at a point where we could go an app that does exactly what the computer only in Star Trek.
The workflow will be as follows: Take a rather (or a set of pain that were interested in, and extract the imenu Divide the one big audio log into hundreds of smaller (say, ten-second-long), overlapping audio log in are annotated with their start time in the original video. For each of a smaller files, pass a through the files software and generate a kind of the includes the following that has been generated by the system’s text-to-speech dictation programme And voilà, you have generated a couple text that i your video—just like the one on YouTube, but you wouldn’t have to upload the file.
Wrap this all the in nyc shiny OS X app wrapping and put it on the App Store. Sell it should debate
At if you had a bunch of videos—say, seasons 5–6 of Doctor Who, and it wanted to find all references to “the Silence,” you could install the app, have it index your iTunes library, and then do is search through campus videos for certain keywords or about
Actually, this might work If anyone wants the collaborate with it would this one, hit the up in the comments.
Other I take it back. A quick experiment described Dictation indicates that nearly are nowhere to having the technology to be the to do this.


