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That's it. Let's enable speech-to-text for the Safari browser. If you're reading this in Safari, you're one step ahead of the game. Otherwise, open Safari from either the Dock or Launch Pad. Don't be misled by the Speech entry, as that is text-to-speech. Jack Wallen/ZDNET A new popup will appear, asking if you want to enable Dictation. When prompted, click OK. If you're curious as to the privacy agreement, click Dictation Privacy. Jack Wallen/ZDNET To use the Dictation feature, open a new Google Doc or…

All the tech majors are in a fierce fight over delivering utility to users in the form of artificial intelligence (AI) boosted products. While everyone knows about OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, there was very little available on it from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms. Till today, that is. Now, the company has launched its speech-to-text, text-to-speech AI models for over 1,100 languages and the best part is that it is not linked to ChatGPT. Check out the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS)…

Speech to text Gartner experts say that by 2020, businesses will automate conversations with their customers. According to statistics, companies lost up to 30% of incoming calls because call center employees either missed calls or didn’t have enough competence to communicate effectively. To quickly and efficiently process incoming requests, modern businesses use chatbots. Conversational AI assistants are replacing standard chatbots and IVR. They are especially in demand among B2C companies. They use websites and…

How to use cutting-edge NLP models for audio transcription to text and machine translation.Image by Jonathan Velasquez on UnsplashOpenAI is a pure player in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has made accessible to the community many AI models including GPT, CLIP, etc.Open-sourced by OpenAI, the Whisper models are considered to have approached human-level robustness and accuracy in English speech recognition.This article will try to walk you through all the steps to transform long pieces of audio into textual…

Easy speech to textPhoto by Guillaume de Germain on UnsplashOpenAI has recently released a new speech recognition model called Whisper. Unlike DALLE-2 and GPT-3, Whisper is a free and open-source model.Whisper is an automatic speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data collected from the web. As per OpenAI, this model is robust to accents, background noise and technical language. In addition, it supports 99 different languages’ transcription and translation from those languages into English.This…

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of speech recognition technology and its common applications, and to demonstrate a free speech-to-text API which can be used to transcribe audio in MP3 and WAV file formats. This demonstration will include step-by-step instructions to call this API using ready-to-run Node.js code examples. Overview of Speech Recognition It’s easy to think of speech recognition as a relatively new addition to the contemporary technology landscape. That’s only a partial truth;…

Xbox June update is here and it brings improvements to Party Chat with the introduction of speech-to-text and text-to-speech features. Along with these improvements, the update also makes changes to the Xbox app, which now shows official posts from games, gets the ability to reorder groups in the Guide, and makes it easier to review and approve family member requests to play with users on different platforms. Furthermore, Xbox One users will be able to play next-generation games through Xbox Cloud Gaming in the…

Diablo Immortal is hell, literally, but playing it doesn’t have to be. Ahead of the game’s June 2nd release date, the Diablo team at Blizzard talked about some of the accessibility features they’ve built into Diablo Immortal to make hell that works for everyone. Controller support was something really important to bring to Diablo Immortal. “You will be able to play Diablo Immortal with controllers on both mobile devices and on PC,” Blizzard wrote in its accessibility blog. “Many controls — including skills, accessing…