Google can't even get its demo text to speech to work - it's been offline for weeks <a href="https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/</a>
How long before we can get a kodi plugin that transcribes the text and translates to the subtitle language you have chosen. I would really be interested in this for Japanese, Korean and Chinese shows that I have to wait sometime months or years before fansubs are available. Though because of Netflix english subs are being available a lot quicker than previously for many of these shows.
I wonder how much it will take until countries will require Telecom companies to transcribe and store all the phone calls for a "limited time period" of, let's say, 6 months, for "our security".<p>And then run algorithms on these texts to classify the conversations into "potentially crime related discussions" classes.
Met Dan at an AI conference & having worked with the API, I think it's really cool that your average dev has access to this level of Transcription that's a non-trivial problem (been working on Speech Recognition since early '00s).<p>I agree with some of the comments regarding Google being a big co & having big co issues. But at the core of it, the team, the offering & attention to what matters is solid.<p>It's certainly going to open up a whole new realm of possibilities.
> Cloud Speech-to-Text (formerly known as Cloud Speech API)<p>Interesting name change. It’s certainly more precise, but was “Speech API” really confusing people?
the number of voice based startups that have built business logic on top of this fundamental api is staggering. some names: voicera (automated meeting minutes), voiceops (call center call analysis), chorus.ai (phone call analytics)<p>the focus on improving call center performance is where the money is. plenty more vendors will enter this market.
For offline use, a (paid) alternative is Nuance’s Dragon, <a href="https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html</a>