Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel!

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content!

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

Christmas Comes Early With AI Santa Demo - With only two hundred odd days ’til Christmas, you just know we’re already feeling... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/18/christmas-comes-early-with-ai-santa-demo/ #artificialintelligence #speechrecognition #speechsynthesis #santaclaus #libpeer #openai #llm #ai

I'm exploring ways to improve audio preprocessing for speech recognition for my [midi2hamlib](https://github.com/DO9RE/midi2hamlib) project. Do any of my followers have expertise with **SoX** or **speech recognition**? Specifically, I’m seeking advice on: Best practices for audio preparation for speech recognition. SoX command-line parameters that can optimize audio during recording or playback.
https://github.com/DO9RE/midi2hamlib/blob/main/tests/speech_menu.sh #SoX #SpeechRecognition #OpenSource #AudioProcessing #ShellScripting #Sphinx #PocketSphinx #Audio Retoot appreciated.

Be Careful What You Ask For: Voice Control https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/be-careful-what-you-ask-for-voice-control/ #speechrecognition #computerspeech #voicecommand #Featured #Rants #rants

Vibe is an #OpenSource desktop client (mac, windows, linux) for locally running Whisper to more accurately transcribe or caption videos & audio https://thewh1teagle.github.io/vibe/ Source code: https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe/ Easier to use than what I was using before (WhisperDesktop). Default settings use the medium Whisper model, which has been good enough in my experience.
#Accessibility #A11y #AI #SpeechRecognition #EdTech

Speech recognition systems struggle with accents and dialects, risking problems in critical fields like healthcare and emergency services. Imagine calling 911 and the AI used to screen out non-emergency calls can’t understand you.

A Spanish language professor explains: https://theconversation.com/sorry-i-didnt-get-that-ai-misunderstands-some-peoples-words-more-than-others-239281 #AI #speechrecognition

#UnplugTrump - Tipp5:
Verabschiede dich von Alexa und anderen Sprachassistenten, die deine Gespräche mithören und auswerten. Nutze stattdessen eine datenschutzfreundliche Alternative wie OpenVoiceOS, ein Open-Source-Sprachassistent, der von einer aktiven Community weiterentwickelt wird und auf einem RaspberryPi läuft. So behältst du die Kontrolle über deine Daten.

Using LLMs to clean up the output of speech recognition has been a game changer for me in the past year:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/Dec/cleaning-up-speech-recognition-with-gpt/

Note: I've improved my workflow compared to that post. I should write a followup.

Microsoft partners with Be My Eyes to enhance AI inclusivity for the blind and low vision community.

https://buff.ly/40htLlw

#Accessibility #AI,#Disabilities #Disability #GenerativeAI #Inclusion #Neurodiversity #ResponsibleAI #Speech #SpeechRecognition

#MOSEL: Multilingual Open-Source European Languages Dataset

• 950,000 hours of #speech data covering 24 official EU languages
• Includes up to 441K hours of unlabeled speech from #VoxPopuli and #LibriLight
• Transcribed using #Whisper large v3 #ASR model
• Covers both labeled and unlabeled #speechcorpora
• Released under #CCBY40 license for #opensource use
• Designed for training #AI #speechrecognition models

Key features:
• Diverse language coverage
• Large-scale dataset
• Open-source compliant
• Includes pseudo-labeled data
• Supports #NLP and #machinelearning research

Learn more: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FBK-MT/mosel?s=09

Absolutely the fuck not.

#SpeechRecognition #Advertising #Surveillance

https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

Gibt es aktuell eine gut funktionierende und anwendungsfreundliche Möglichkeit, Text direkt in ein #Libreoffice-Dokument zu #diktieren?
Lokale Lösungen! Keinesfalls Cloud.

Ich kenne den Weg, eine Audio-Datei mit #Whisper zu transkribieren. Das ist super, nutzt mir aber aktuell gerade recht wenig. Ich bräuchte was, wo der Prozess schon während des Sprechens läuft ...so wie bei Dragon und ähnlichen "Diktiersystemen", die es mal gab (und von denen ich nicht weiß, ob sie noch existieren).

Orange you glad you bought a Power Macintosh? #RetroComputing #FrogFind #SpeechRecognition

CH32V003 Provides Ultra Cheap Speech Recognition - Speech recognition was once the stuff of science fiction, but it’s now possible wi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/05/30/ch32v003-provides-ultra-cheap-speech-recognition/ #speechrecognition #microcontrollers #ch32v003

#Development #Pitfalls
Images as the first thing in a button or link · How they can bother users of assistive technology https://ilo.im/15ynlu

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#Image #Button #Hyperlink #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReader #SpeechRecognition #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

Salut,
Vous avez un soft de reconnaissance vocale (#SpeechRecognition) à me conseiller sur gnu/lINUX ?

#Development #Reviews
Alt text for CSS generated content · A closer look at Safari's new accessible ‘content’ fallback https://ilo.im/15y89w

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#AltText #Accessibility #ScreenReader #SpeechRecognition #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS

Last week, as part of my #PhD program at the #ANU School of #cybernetics, I gave my final presentation, which is a summary of my methods and #research findings. I covered my interview work, the #dataset documentation analysis work I've been doing and my analysis work around #accents in @mozilla's #CommonVoice platform.

There were some insightful and thought-provoking questions from my panel and audience members, and of course - so many ideas for future research inquiry!

A huge thanks to my panel, chaired so well by Professor Alexandra Zafiroglu, to Dr Elizabeth Williams, my meticulous, methodical and always-encouraging Primary Supervisor, and to my co-supervisors Dr Jofish Kaye and Dr Paul Wong 黃仲熙 for their deep expertise in #HCI and #data respectively.

Similarly, a huge thank you to my #PhD cohort - Charlotte Bradley, Tom Chan, Danny Bettay and Sam Backwell - as well as the other cohorts in the School - for your encouragement and intellectual journeying.

Common Voice is a project by Mozilla to build an extensive ethically-sourced dataset of spoken word in various languages to help push forward open-source voice recognition technology like DeepVoice (also by Mozilla).

I just recorded a dozen or so sentences :)

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/